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News on Energy & Resources in China

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Speculative failure

How China’s biggest nickel producer got caught out in the futures market
Mar 18, 2022 (WiC 577)

Chinese investors sometimes refer to ‘demon stocks’. These are characterised by logic-defying lurches in their share prices and are frequently associated with improper market disclosure and insider trading. There’s a metal that’s also ...

Triple digit oil is back

Energy importer China walks a tightrope as commodity prices go berserk
Mar 11, 2022 (WiC 576)

The crisis in Ukraine is spilling over into stratospheric prices in the world’s commodity markets. Oil has climbed more than 40% over two weeks to its highest levels in nearly 15 years, while prices for thermal coal and wholesale gas have both ...

Dirty emissions

Surging coal production back in the spotlight
Feb 25, 2022 (WiC 574)

China’s energy bosses have been championing this month’s Winter Olympics as the first to run totally on renewable electricity. No doubt it helps that Zhangjiakou – the city hosting the outdoor events – boasts more wind and solar power ...

Sensitive to digs

Pushback over mining purchases in Zimbabwe
Feb 18, 2022 (WiC 573)

“Were it not for China’s funding support and the work of Chinese companies in communications and power generation, [these accusations] would perhaps have to be scribbled down on a piece of paper, in a candle-lit room, and never find its way ...

Mine, or yours?

BYD lithium deal rapidly undone by Chileans
Jan 28, 2022 (WiC 571)

In Chinese slang, over-indulging is described as “eyes wide, stomach narrow” – much like the English phrase “your eyes are bigger than your belly.” Maybe it characterises the enormous (and growing) appetite of China’s EV battery ...

Elemental forces

Huge Chinese demand drives up lithium prices
Jan 14, 2022 (WiC 569)

Go to a Chinese restaurant offering fresh seafood and you may well find that there aren’t any prices on display. That’s because the restaurateur plans to gauge how much you’re willing, or able to pay: the local price or the tourist ...

Welcome to Magnetic Valley

Beijing orchestrates a mega-merger as it seeks control over rare earths
Jan 7, 2022 (WiC 568)

For the past half century, the part of the world most associated with technological progress has been Silicon Valley. If you fancy living there, a house in Atherton Valley, just outside San Francisco, costs an average of $7.5 million. It is ...

The greenest gas?

Why Sinopec is betting big on a hydrogen future
Dec 10, 2021 (WiC 567)

If you believe that the universe was formed as the result of a Big Bang, then hydrogen was the first element that was created. Physicists think that hydrogen constitutes 75% of the universe’s matter. And if things go to plan, hydrogen might ...

Full metal racket

Aluminium firm Zhongwang struggles for survival
Nov 5, 2021 (WiC 562)

Once a symbol of American industrial might, Alcoa was split in two in 2016. The revamp came amid falling aluminium prices and as a result of intensifying competition from Chinese producers. At nearly the same time, China’s biggest ...

Charging into Argentina

Chinese firms rush to dominate global lithium supply chain
Oct 22, 2021 (WiC 560)

What would Argentina’s legendary nineteenth century cowboy Gauchito Gill have made of the corporate stampede to stake a claim to the nation’s deposits of lithium, the silvery-white metal found under the country’s northwestern salt flats? ...

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