| Competition for natural resources among Asian nations continues to intensify, bringing the world's most resource-poor continent to a dangerous crossroads of dependence, geopolitical tension and environmental degradation, writes Professor Brahma Chellaney of the New Delhi-based Center for Policy Research in an article for Project Syndicate.
As Australians, Canadians and Russians well know, severe natural resource constraints in Asian have forced economies outward to secure access to mineral ores, timber and fossil fuels, leading a "commodities supercycle" that has lasted some 15 years...............................................Full Article: Source
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