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Chinalco and Rio Tinto: A Long March for China's National Champions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 September 2009

Shujie Yao  and
Dylan Sutherland
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The China Quarterly , Volume 199 , September 2009 , pp. 829 - 836
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2 Ironically, this was in part driven by China's own massive stimulus packages.

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5 Ibid.

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15 All companies, even big foreign private companies – as China's recent rejection of Coke's bid for the famous Huiyuan juice brand shows – may face similar political obstacles.