China mining confronting local blowback in Vietnam
Wednesday, June 3, 2009 at 2:57AM
Thomas P.M. Barnett

WORLD NEWS: "Vietnam Bid for China Mining Funds Draws Protests," by James Hookway, Wall Street Journal, 2-3 May 2009.

Chinese mining interests bumping into local grass-roots environmental groups and a wide suspicion of China in general.

China will see more and more of this, given its approach. It will have to elevate its game and submit to being consistently cast as a great villain of modern globalization.

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