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For adventurous frontier investors in Asia, в прошлом году было все, о Монголии. Now Myanmar is the darling of 2012, as it slowly opens up to the outside world.

Китай, хотя, never lost its interest in Mongolia. State-owned giant Aluminum Corp. of China Ltd., also known as Chalco, has made large investments in the resource-rich country in recent weeks. But a recent deal in Mongolia has hit a stumbling block, and signs are starting to show that country may be slowly closing its doors to foreign ownership, especially from China.

Chalco is already a big player in Mongolia, taking 80% of production from Tavan Tolgoi, a giant coking-coal project that Mongolia plans to list in a $10 billion initial public offering in London, Hong Kong and Ulan Bator. Seeking to diversify from aluminum, Chalco in April spent more than $300 million for a stake in Winsway Coking Coal Holdings Ltd., a trading firm that dominates the import of Mongolian coal into China. That followed a bid of almost $1 billion for a majority stake in SouthGobi Resources, which is controlled by Canada’s Ivanhoe Mines Ltd.

Read the rest at WSJ’s Deal Journal.

В последние годы, В Китае снова активизировались о своей поддержке ведущих государственных предприятий в секторах, он считает важным, чтобы “экономическая безопасность,” явно ищет для содействия глобальной конкурентоспособности национальных чемпионов.

В 2009, Китай объявил, что 2020 это приведет к сокращению выбросов углерода 40% от 2005 уровнях.

Китай также является вторым по величине торговой страной в мире и крупнейшим экспортером и вторым по величине импортером товаров.
Решение правительства КНР, чтобы позволить Китаю, который будет использоваться транснациональными корпорациями в качестве экспортной платформы сделало страну основным конкурентом других азиатских экспортно-ориентированной экономики, таких как Южная Корея, Сингапур, и Малайзии.

Реструктуризации экономики и в результате повышения эффективности внесли свой вклад в более чем десятикратное увеличение ВВП, начиная с 1978.

2 наиболее важных секторов экономики традиционно сельское хозяйство и промышленность, , которые вместе работают более 70 процентов рабочей силы и производят больше, чем 60 процентов ВВП.

Китай приобрел некоторые весьма сложные производственные мощности за счет торговли, а также имеет встроенный ряд передовых машиностроительных заводов способна производить более широкого спектра современного оборудования, в том числе ядерного оружия и спутников, но большая часть промышленного производства по-прежнему исходит от относительно плохо оснащенные заводы.

На протяжении многих лет, крупные субсидии были встроены в структуру цен, и эти субсидии существенно вырос в конце 1970-х и 1980-х.

Глобально, иностранных инвестиций сократился почти на 40 процента в прошлом году на фоне финансового кризиса и, как ожидается, чтобы показывать только незначительный рост в этом году.

“Китай в настоящее время пятое место инвестирования нации во всем мире, и крупнейшим среди развивающихся стран,” Шен сказал Danyang, вице-директор пресс министерства отдел.

Китай стремится стать крупным новым в мире автомобиль энергетического рынка путем 2020 с 5 млн. автомобилей.

Хотя Китай остается развивающейся страной с относительно низким доходом на душу населения, он пережил огромный экономический рост с конца 1970-х.

Несмотря на первоначальные успехи в фермеров’ доходов в начале 1980-х, налогов и сборов во все большей степени сделали сельское хозяйство убыточным занятием, и потому, что государство владеет всей земли фермеров, время от времени были просто выселили, когда пахотные земли разыскивают разработчиков.

За исключением сельского хозяйства оазис в Синьцзяне и Цинхай, некоторые орошаемых земель во Внутренней Монголии и провинции Ганьсу, и защищенных долинах в Тибете, сельскохозяйственное производство ограничено на востоке.

Свиней и птицы широко подняты в Китае, ВАЖНО Обстановка Экспорт Staples, таких как свиньи щетина и яичные продукты.

Нефтяные месторождения открыты в 1960-х годов и после сделал Китай является нетто-экспортером, и к началу 1990-х годов, Китай пятое место нефти в мире производителя.

Есть большие запасы урана на северо-западе, особенно в Синьцзяне; Есть также шахты в провинции Цзянси и Гуандун provs.

Крупнейших завершенных проектов, Gezhouba Дэм, на Chang (Янцзы) Река, открыт в 1981; Плотина "Три ущелья, Крупнейшая инжиниринговая в мире проект, на нижней Chang, планируется завершить в 2009.
Начиная с конца 1970-х, изменения в экономической политике, в том числе децентрализации управления и создания особых экономических зон для привлечения иностранных инвестиций, привело к значительному росту промышленного, особенно в легкой промышленности, которые производят товары народного потребления.

Другие ведущие порты железнодорожным концах, таких как Люйшунь (бывший Порт-Артур, Порт Далянь), на Южно-Маньчжурской RR; и Циндао, на линии Цзинань.

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Организация Объединенных Наций Генеральный секретарь ООН Пан Ги Мун призвал дальнейшее ослабление экономических и политических санкций в отношении Бирмы понедельник, during an unprecedented speech to the country’s parliament.

Ban praised President Thein Sein for ushering in a string of dramatic and unexpected reforms since taking office a year ago.

Last week, the European Union suspended most of its sanctions, except arms sales, following the examples of Australia and Canada, while the United States maintained sanctions on trade.

The U.N. chief urged the international community to do more to support reform efforts in Burma, also known as Myanmar.

“I urge the international community to go even further in lifting, suspending, or easing trade restrictions and other sanctions,” сказал он. “Второй, Myanmar needs a substantial increase in international development assistance as well as foreign direct investment.”

The U.N. chief also praised democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s leadership.  Her National League for Democracy Monday backed off a demand for changes to a constitutional oath required of members of parliament.

“We decided to compromise in this situation because we don’t want to become a political problem. Some people may think the NLD has given in, but let them think what they want,”  Aung San Suu Kyi explained in response to a reporter’s question about why they made the compromise.

NLD members could take the oath as early as Wednesday.  The oath requires politicians to say they will “safeguard” the military-drafted constitution as they are sworn in. The NLD members opposed it because they want to amend the charter.

The constitution sets aside a quarter of all seats in parliament for the military and allows it to take over government if there is an “emergency.”

Earlier Monday Ban held meetings with President Thein Sein.  Tuesday he is scheduled to meet for the first time with Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.  

Ban last visited Burma in 2009 when the military government was still in power, holding Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest, and refusing to let her see the U.N. leader.

The democracy leader was released shortly after the controversial 2010 election that brought the nominally civilian government to power.  

The NLD boycotted the 2010 election because their leader was not allowed to run, but participated in April’s by-elections where Aung San Suu Kyi and 42 of her fellow NLD party members won seats.

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Автор: Петр Drysdale, Редактор, Восточная Азия форум

The boom in resource prices, подпитывается Бушующие индустриализации Китая и спроса на сталь за последние несколько десятилетий, has lifted Australia’s terms of trade to a 100-year high.

Resource exporters around the world have been enjoying good times.

Australia’s terms of trade are 65 per cent above the average twentieth-century level and 85 per cent above the trend seen in the twentieth century, had that continued. В результате, Australian gross domestic product in nominal terms is about 13 per cent higher than it would have been without these relative price changes.

What goes up, конечно, must also come down. A gigantic global supply response to booming resource prices is already under way.

Take the case of iron ore, Australia’s largest export commodity, the price of which leapt from just over $12.68 per tonne in 2001 к $187.18 per tonne in February 2011. Forecasts for growth of Chinese iron ore demand (and India’s attempt to switch from exporting iron ore to supplying growing domestic demand from its own steel industry) have led to a scramble to expand and capitalise on current high prices. Suppliers all around the world are trying to cash in on these high ore prices. The established suppliers in Australia and Brazil have big expansion plans just to keep up with continuing growth in the demand from China’s steel mills, and new suppliers are now scrambling to enter the market.

The big new entrant in global iron ore supply is Africa. Africa has reserves of high-quality iron ore that are estimated to match those in Australia. О 200 iron ore projects are being contemplated across the African continent.

In the past Africa has not been a significant competitor in the iron ore market. African projects typically require huge infrastructure investments to bring them to market. Western banks have been reluctant to finance these project because of high political and economic risks in most African countries. That, it seems, is all about to change significantly. For one thing, much of Africa has been doing better in economic terms over the past decade. For another, Chinese capital is willing to take the risks in Africa.

In this week’s lead essay Luke Hurst reviews 17 key iron projects across West and Central Africa and provides new estimates of additional iron ore export capacity that are likely to come on stream by 2018.

По 2018, Hurst calculates, China is expected to increase its demand at a steady but slowing rate as its growth becomes less resource intensive. Australia’s Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics (BREE) forecasts that Chinese iron ore demand will grow 2.8 per cent per annum through to 2018. Other estimates, from the Raw Materials Group, put growth at 3.8 per cent per annum, a percentage point higher than BREE’s projection. Hurst compares global import demand on the higher Chinese demand forecasts with projected global export capacity, including new African capacity five years out, to assess what the impact of new supplies might be on iron ore prices over this period.

Hurst examines projects according to the risk of their falling over — identifying capacity that is very likely to come on stream according to schedule, capacity that has a fair chance, and capacity that is less likely to be operational in the next five years. Hurst’s analysis suggests that Africa will begin to put pressure on prices in the next three to five years. He reckons that iron ore prices are likely to fall back to around $80 per tonne quickly. If more of the planned African capacity comes on stream prices could tumble to $60 per tonne in the next five years.

A price fall of this magnitude, Hurst points out, would still provide intra-marginal producers with healthy profits but it would have serious knock-on effects for the iron ore exporters and their investments in countries such as Australia and Brazil. For one thing it would dry up internally generated investment capital in the major iron ore firms. Iron ore is expected to represent 2.6 per cent of Australia’s GDP in 2011-12, and a drop in iron prices would affect Australia’s terms of trade, exchange rate and income. The falling price would especially constrain the development of Australia’s budding magnetite industry.

In short, any fall in the price of iron ore such as Hurst foreshadows would have significant knock-on effects for the iron ore-centric economies of Australia and Brazil.

Despite the expectation of strong Chinese demand for iron and other resources for some years, the exceptionally tight commodity markets and high resource prices in the past decade seem very likely to ease over the next half decade as supply responds in global markets to the investment opportunities that high prices have generated.

These outcomes are the result of the response in incredibly tight global markets to bringing on stream new sources of international iron ore supply to service the boom in Chinese demand. They take no account of an unanticipated dip in Chinese demand, which in this analysis is assumed to continue to grow steadily.

Nobody has long-term monopoly in resource markets, neither sellers nor buyers. Discouraged from investment in Australia, there’s no question that Chinese and other investment (including by the majors) has gone to Africa and elsewhere to fill the gap, as the Japanese went to Brazil to fill the Australian gap more than thirty years ago.

Peter Drysdale is Editor of the East Asia Forum.

1. Вещь, Africa and the contestability of the global iron ore market
2. Iron ore and the market power myth
3. China’s impact on iron ore markets

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The election success of Burma’s opposition has led to the easing of some sanctions imposed by the United States and pressure from neighboring countries to drop them entirely. Although there is a surge in interest in Burma’s economy from foreign investors, analysts warn there remain major economic and political challenges.

This week, the United States dropped travel bans against some senior Burmese officials and eased restrictions on some U.S. investment and financial services.

Positive reaction

The moves were welcomed by the chief executive of the investment house Leopard Capital, Douglas Clayton.

“We’re very bullish on the development and we believe that this is the beginning of Myanmar’s [Burma's] transformation into a modern economy and that there will be a role for foreign investors to play in that. Sanctions in the past should be unwound because the reasons for sanctions have been largely met,” сказал он.

Although the United States has said it is preparing to nominate an ambassador to the country, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the reform process still has a long way to go.

ASEAN divided

That position remains at odds with Burma’s neighbors in the Association of Southeast Asia Nations, who has called for an end to all sanctions.

Despite that show of support from ASEAN, not all members are in agreement.

ASEAN politicians within the ASEAN Inter-parliamentary Myanmar Caucus say the lifting of all sanctions could be premature, inviting instability within the country.

Kraisak Choonhavan, Thailand representative within the Caucus, says ending fighting in ethnic minority regions should be the priority before sanctions are fully lifted.

“These pressures [to ease sanctions] are strong and much stronger still, as it is represented by the ASEAN call for the lifting of sanctions to please the regime – which remains very much a vicious and undaunting regime on the maintenance of its absolute power over Shan State, Karen State, Kachin State [и] Mon State,” said Kraisak Choonhavan.

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The Burmese government has been holding ceasefire talks with the Kachin and Karen in recent days. Rights organizations say on-going military operations have led to human rights abuses and attacks on civilians in Kachin state in recent months.

Kraisak fears the NLD, Burma’s main opposition party, having secured seats in the national parliament in the by-election, may turn its back on ethnic minority communities’ concerns.

Other pro-democracy groups say sanctions should be lifted only after all political detainees are released. The Thailand based Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) says there are still 900 political prisoners in jail.

Human Rights Watch, in a release, called for caution in any easing of sanctions, saying while positive steps by Burma’s government should be matched by the European Union, there should be no “wholesale withdrawal of sanctions”.

The rights group says a further easing on visa bans and increases in humanitarian and development assistance should be considered by European Union foreign ministers.

While the sanctions may remain for now, there already has been a surge in tourism from foreigners eager for a first hand look at the country.

Sean Turnell, an associate professor of economics at Australia’s Macquarie University, says Asian investors are already trying to capitalize on the foreign interest.

“Asian investors have always been there of course. But some of them are getting excited about potential Western interest in the sense that if they see a great advance of Western tourists into the country then I think there’s a lot of Asian investors interested in hotels and tourist infrastructure,” said Turnell.

Burma’s economy in recent years has grown up with the sanctions, which has led to pain for some industries but benefits for others.

Uneven benefits

Academics and rights workers have argued the trade and financial sanctions hit workers in export-oriented industries such as textiles, forcing many who would prefer factory jobs into informal sectors such as entertainment or the sex industry.

Aung Zaw, editor of the newsmagazine The Irrawaddy says there are many businessmen and state-owned enterprises that have benefited from the restricted economic competition resulting from the foreign sanctions.

“There are some tycoons, those ministers, whose [business] is not competitive; particular those billionaires inside the country,” сказал он. “They are not competitive enough and they don’t want to see sanctions being lifted because they are enjoying so much with the monopoly – they monopolize everything.”

But all analysts agree Burma faces major challenges and opportunities as it tries to rebuild an economy long mismanaged after five decades of military rule.

Timeline of major political events in Burma

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says some senior Burmese officials and parliamentarians will now be allowed to visit the United States and that Washington will lift its ban on the export to Burma of U.S. financial services and investment to help accelerate modernization and reform.

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Внутренний спрос также показал признаки жизни, но суровая погода, вывод на основе потребления финансовых стимулов и политическая неопределенность должна быть тормозом для роста. С большой долей населения по-прежнему занята в сельском хозяйстве и работающих в сельской местности, сельское хозяйство является важнейшей переменной для выполнения домашнего потребления.
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