“The Middle East has oil,” Deng Xiaoping is reported to have remarked. “China has rare earths.” Deng was visiting one of China’s biggest rare earths mines, in Baotou, Inner Mongolia, in 1992 when he made that observation about the vast deposit of critical minerals in his country. At that time, no one took his statement […]
Author Archives: Ravi Kant
Ravi Kant is a columnist and correspondent for Asia Times covering Asia. He mainly writes on economics, international politics and technology. He has wide experience in the financial world and some of his research and analyses have been quoted by the US Congress, Harvard University and Wikipedia ( Chinese Dream). He is also the author of the book Coronavirus: A Pandemic or Plandemic.
