China's Hunger; Latin America's Commodities

While the U.S. economy continues to show signs of stalling, conjecture continues about how Asian-Latin American trade—and particularly China’s commodity hunger—may cushion Latin American economies. As a recent special report by the Economist explains, China now gobbles up half the world’s cement, a third of its steel, and a quarter of its aluminum. Although it remains behind the United States as an energy consumer, China's oil and natural gas consumption more than quadrupled over the past 25 years.

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