Dambisa Moyo: 'The world will be drawn into a war for resources'

Guardian: Massive geopolitical shifts seldom announce themselves with a bang. They tend instead to creep up slowly, until it's hard to be sure exactly when they began. I remember going to buy some steel about six years ago, and being staggered by the price. "Ah," the man in the hardware store explained, "it's the Chinese, you see. They're buying up so much steel, the price has gone through the roof." The last time I visited my brother, all the lead had been stripped from his garden shed – the second theft...

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2012/jun/24/natural-resources-and-development-china
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