CCP says 'weak' Australia would be first hit in a war over Taiwan

[glockman]

Brooke Rolfe
·News Reporter
Sun, 23 May 2021, 6:52 pm·2-min read

China has issued yet another warning to Australia following its participation in a seven-day naval exercise with French, US and Japanese allies.

The Royal Australian Navy ship HMAS Parramatta practised anti-submarine drills and landing on remote islands off the East China Sea between May 11 and May 17.

Speculation over the collaboration presenting as a "threat" to China has since been promptly shut down by a Chinese military expert in state-run publication The Global Times.

"Australia’s military is too weak to be a worthy opponent of China," Song Zhongping told the publication.

"If it (Australia) dares to interfere in a military conflict for example in the Taiwan Straits, its forces will be among the first to be hit."

The article condemned Australia's military practice in the East China Sea (HMAS Parramatta pictured). Source: AAP

Mr Zhongping went further to condemn Australia's participation, saying the "provocative" move fell far short of a realistic threat to China.

"Australia must not think it can hide from China if it provokes. The drill will not be a threat to China, because it was only scraped together," he said.

The journalist behind the piece also said China's People’s Liberation Army had no need to make a "pointed response" because Australia was "insignificant militarily".

The threatening language came one week after the publication encouraged Australia to build an anti-missile defence system following China's threat of launching a missile on Australian soil.

Meanwhile, China hit out at Prime Minister Scott Morrison this week, accusing him of playing dumb over the state of badly-depleted Sino-Australian ties and what has led to their deterioration.

An excerpt from the damning piece published by China's state-run mouthpiece. Source: The Global Times

Pressed on recent remarks Mr Morrison made to The Sydney Morning Herald where he said there was still "great value" in the two nation's relations, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian revealed Beijing's disapproval of his comments.

"This is what we Chinese call 'feigning ignorance'," he told reporters.

In yet another defiant public display, Mr Zhao once again stressed the blame for the struggling relationship lay solely with Canberra.

"The root cause of the current serious difficulties in China-Australia relations lies in Australia's gross interference in China's internal affairs, impairment of China's interests and unwarranted restrictions on bilateral exchanges and cooperation in various fields.

"The responsibility doesn't rest with China at all."

Mr Zhao's latest remarks are yet another stern reminder China is unwilling to budge on what it demands from Australia.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/too-weak-china-condemns-australias-provocative-move-085209619.html

 

[Rogue Trader]

It's really hilarious to see Australia playing its role as a good lapdog. Let's see how long they can last playing this game with no chips

 

[Hypocrite-The]

China-Australia trade war not being won by Beijing​

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It must be a source of increasing frustration for China’s bureaucrats that its own economic successes are overwhelming their efforts to sanction Australia for our less than diplomatic commentary on the origins of the pandemic and China’s treatment of the Uighurs in the Xinjiang region.
While the sanctions on barley, wine, lobsters, coal and other products have bitten, they have been far more than offset by China’s insatiable demand for iron ore and LNG and the spiking prices – in iron ore’s case, soaring prices – of both.

China is trying to reduce its reliance on Australian iron ore. CREDIT: BLOOMBERG
If this is a trade war, Australia is winning its first phase quite handsomely.
The iron ore price is above $US200 a tonne and LNG prices have rebounded from the pandemic to levels last seen two years ago.
In coal, the Australian producers have responded to China’s bans by shifting their exports elsewhere, particularly to India. While the producers might not be getting the same prices as before, China is being forced to buy lower quality coal at higher prices while its competitors benefit from the windfall of high quality Australian coal at lower prices.
It’s not that China hasn’t tried to do something about its reliance on Australian iron ore and LNG.
Last month it announced a series of changes to tariffs on raw materials used in its steel industry to encourage imports of pig iron and scrap steel, along with moves to reduce domestic steel production and encourage domestic iron ore production.
In the context of record steel production – and a function of China’s success in recovering quickly from the worst of the pandemic last year and the strengthening economic recovery emerging in other major economies – the measures are likely to have only modest effects.
In the longer term scrap metal might have a more material role in China’s steel industry – China wants to double production from its electric arc furnaces over the next four or five years – but its ambitions will have only modest impacts on its demand for iron ore and iron ore prices in the medium term.
Along with a crackdown on iron ore futures trading last week – the authorities vowed to punish market manipulation – the actions helped slightly lower the iron ore price, from more than $US230 a tonne to around $US210 a tonne. Iron ore started this year priced at less than $US160 a tonne, having traded down to around $US60 a tonne just over a year ago.
China’s reliance on Australian iron ore for almost two-thirds of its steel industry’s requirements and Vale’s continuing struggles to restore production after its tailing dam disasters and pandemic-related disruptions in Brazil means there is little it can do to curtail purchases of Australian iron ore without hurting its steel industry and economy.
Even if it can develop new sources of supply, with the giant Simandou resource in Guinea the most obvious, they would be higher-cost (development of the infrastructure for Simandou could cost the best part of $US20 billion), are nearly a decade away and would in any event probably represent only about 10 per cent of China’s existing demand.
The big Australian producers – Rio Tinto, BHP and Fortescue – are the low-cost producers and have a significant cost advantage over Brazil because of their proximity to China and therefore their lower shipping costs.
Recognition of that freight advantage and the move to index-related – market, rather than contract -- pricing of iron ore in the last decade transformed the market for iron ore, undermining the leverage buyers had when determining the volumes and prices of contracts in the past.
LNG has different issues. Australia is almost neck and neck with Qatar as the world’s leading producer as China looks to LNG to reduce its usage of coal for energy production.

Despite the damage it has done to some export categories with its tariffs and other sanctions, China hasn’t been able to hurt the Australian producers of the two big commodities that really matter.

China could buy more LNG from Qatar and the US (it has a commitment under the Trump era trade truce to buy more LNG from the US, is in talks with Qatar about taking equity in the world’s biggest new project and has been expanding its relationship with Turkmenistan) but LNG is an internationally-traded commodity and demand within the Asia Pacific is strong enough for Australian cargoes to be redeployed elsewhere, as has happened in coal.
A subsidiary complicating factor is that China’s state-owned energy companies have big, multi-billion-dollar equity stakes and long term contracts with the major Australian LNG exporters, so damaging the Australian industry would damage China’s own SOEs.
Two of the three big export projects on Curtis Island in Queensland, for instance, have Chinese SOEs as foundation shareholders and customers.
Sinopec has a 25 per cent interest and was the foundation customer in the Origin Energy-led GLNG consortium while CNOOC has a 50 per cent interest in the first train of Shell’s QGC project. PetroChina is a partner with Shell in the Arrow Energy joint venture. Woodside has long term contracts with Chinese companies.
China has been trying to withdraw the pandemic-related stimulus it injected into its economy last year as part of a wider effort to deleverage and decarbonise and improve the productivity of its industrial base.
That includes efforts to limit steel production. It has targeted a reduction in steel output from the record 1.2 billion tonnes it produced last year and has threatened mills that don’t conform to its directives.
That hasn’t, however, stopped production from setting monthly records this year, probably because the mills are experiencing strong margins.

China has been trying to withdraw the pandemic-related stimulus it injected into its economy last year as part of a wider effort to deleverage and decarbonise and improve the productivity of its industrial base. CREDIT: BLOOMBERG
There’s also a suspicion that China is building up its stocks of vital commodities amid rising geopolitical tensions which, if true, might mean the spikes in commodity prices have a transitory element to them.
It is not in the long term interests of either Australia or China for the diplomatic and trade relationships to continue to deteriorate but in the meantime, despite the damage it has done to some export categories with its tariffs and other sanctions, China hasn’t been able to hurt the Australian producers of the two big commodities that really matter.
Indeed, apart from its purchases of near-record levels of Australian iron ore and LNG at, in iron ore’s case, near-record prices, its actions have prompted Australian companies -- from wine makers to coal miners to LNG exporters – to seek out new markets and reduce their dependence on China which, given the recent relationship, is probably a positive for Australia’s long term national interests.

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[Hypocrite-The]

China’s warning it could wipe $32 billion from Australian economy​

China has warned Australia it is in for economic “pain” in the near future — saying plans to hit our highest export are already taking effect and could wipe billions from our economy.
According to CommSec, iron ore prices are down sharply again this morning, dropping US$11.85 a tonne or 5.9 per cent to US$188.25 a tonne — after hitting a record high of more than $US230 a tonne earlier this month.
That comes after it dropped 5.1 per cent at the end of last week — sending shockwaves through mining companies on the stock market.
The valuable steelmaking ingredient is by far Australia’s biggest export, and a whopping 60 per cent of it is gobbled up by China for its constantly churning mills.
Sparked by China’s high demand for steel, the roaring iron ore trade has thrown Australia an economic lifejacket in the midst of the coronavirus recession.
On Sunday the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), China’s top economic planner, along with four other departments, held a meeting with industry leaders and vowed to severely punish “excessive speculation, price gouging and other violations” that they say helped lift prices.
Regulators would adopt a “zero tolerance” approach toward illegal activities and strengthen regulation of abnormal transactions and malicious speculation, the NDRC said in a statement.
The skyrocketing ore prices are putting China’s economic recovery from the pandemic at risk, with companies and everyday Chinese citizens bearing the cost.
Chinese government mouthpiece the Global Times says companies have already raised prices for a wide range of products, including refrigerators, washers and bicycles, citing rising costs.
However, analysts told the paper that China’s latest moves to crack down on “speculations and other market manipulation” is about to send “chilling waves across the globe”.
‘Australia’s pain’
The Times singles out Australia as the nation that will be hit hardest by the crack down — given iron ore is such a dominant force in our exports — and accused us of “profiteering” from the rising prices.
“Among the most affected could be iron ore exports from Australia, which has benefited massively from the sky-high prices in its main export – emboldening officials in Canberra to continue on their relentless provocation against China,” the paper stated.
“While China’s reliance on Australian iron ore will likely continue in the foreseeable future, despite its efforts to diversify sources, sharp drops in iron ore prices would mean heavy losses in export revenue for Australia, which is already seeing declining trade with China in areas such as wine and seafood.”
It says that iron ore prices have dropped $9.25 per tonne since Beijing took action last week. It says that could translate into a loss of over $2 billion in extra revenue for Australia based on the amount of exports to China in the first four months of 2021.
“If prices fell from about $200 per ton last week to about $60 per ton during the same time last year, losses in revenue could have been over $32 billion,” it stated.
Australia’s iron ore exports to China are at an all-time high.Source:Supplied
Flaws in China’s plan
The price of iron ore is dropping as Beijing implores its steelmakers to explore overseas ore resources and widen their sources of imports.
However, analysts have pointed to flaws in the plan saying China would need to develop hundreds of new mines in a short space of time to keep up with its steel production.
China has been the main driver of global metal markets for more than a decade and they’re showing no signs of slowing down.
Research house Capital Economics estimates that Chinese steel production rose by 7.5 per cent in April compared with March. While Capital Economics believes April’s production level may prove to be the peak, Australia’s miners have seen strong activity continue into May.
However, China is under pressure to reduce its carbon footprint and has promised to take steps to do so, which is at odds with its recent ramp-up in steel production.
Beijing started the year with a plan to drive steel production lower in 2021 to reduce pollution from the sector, which is estimated to account for about 15 per cent of the nation’s total emissions.
This clearly isn’t going to plan, with steel production hitting record levels, but the expectation is that the Chinese government will attempt to put the brakes on booming steel production in the second half of this year.
Given Australia sells over 60 per cent of its iron ore to China alone, this could mean we take a serious economic hit.
Australian mining insiders have told the AFR they are wary of what could happen in the near future if China goes hard on its intervention in the steel market.
Global demand feeds industry optimism
However, they said the level of demand across the rest of the world is so strong that they see no need to panic.
“If China cuts steel production someone else will do it,” a source inside one of Australia’s big miners told the publication.
Feeding that optimism is the fact that the steel market around the world is red hot right now.
European steel giant ArcelorMittal this month lifted its steel prices for the 12th time since November, taking a tonne of hot rolled coil (steel) in Europe to €1050 ($A1655) – up by more than 80 per cent over the past seven months.
Roughly 60 per cent of our iron ore goes directly to China.Source:News Regional Media
Meanwhile, Nucor, the biggest steel maker in the United States is taking the stock market by storm and struggling to find workers to keep up with its expanding operations.
Even COVID-19-ravaged India is going hard to increase steel exports, which rose about 26 per cent in the March quarter, according to S&P Global Platts.
However, Shiro Armstrong, director of the Australia-Japan Research Centre at the Australian National University, told news.com.au if China and Australia try to diversify away from each other, then it will have serious consequences for both nations.
He said that the idea Australian mines can simply find other nations to make up for the iron trade we do with China “sounds fanciful”.
“It would be unrealistic in the short term, and likely in the medium and long term for both nations because it would come at a cost neither governments or mining companies will be able to bear,” he said.
Government intervention ‘could lead to more uncertainty’
He said the international market between Australia and China is one that has delivered.
“There is not good track record when governments try to intervene in the market, and China’s efforts could lead to more uncertainty and higher prices there,” he said. “None of their policies will work because they would lead to a huge hit to China’s construction sector.”
On the flip side for Australia, he said the demand for iron ore elsewhere in the world simply isn’t there – especially with prices as high as they are now.
The latest figures show that China produces over half of the world’s steel – producing over 996 million metric tonnes in 2019. The next highest was India which produced nine times less – with just over 111 million metric tonnes.
Mr Armstrong said it would be best for the governments of both nations to stay out of the market.
“We’ve had a very beneficial relationship with China that’s driven by market fundamentals. If both countries start looking to retreat from that open market … that’s a pathway to living standards in both countries,” he said.
China’s reliance on Australian iron ore – which has resulted in massive financial windfalls for our biggest mining companies – have come despite trade tensions between the two countries being at an all-time high.
China’s President Xi Jinping. Picture: World Economic Forum (WEF)/AFPSource:AFP
Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Joel CarrettSource:News Corp Australia
Outright ban is ‘unimaginable’
According to Chinese state media, NDRC spokesman Jin Xiandong blamed Australia for damaging trade relations.
“Consequently, we have to make the legitimate and necessary reaction, and Australia should bear full responsibility for such moves,” Mr Jin told the conference.
“We urged the Australian side to treat China-Australian co-operation objectively and reasonably, to treat Chinese companies fairly, end the disruption of bilateral trade and investment co-operation and take actions to bring forward bilateral relations for healthy development.”
But despite Australia and China’s icy relationship, an outright ban on iron ore is “almost unimaginable”.
Instead Beijing could resort to other tactics to make the export of iron ore more difficult for Australia companies, energy research and consultancy firm Wood Mackenzie told Bloomberg earlier this month.
“While an outright ban would be almost unimaginable, various forms of restrictions, delays or increased administrative burdens on Australian iron ore imports could yet happen,” Wood Mackenzie warned.

 

[laksaboy]

China will be regime changed.

 

[Hypocrite-The]

China will be regime changed.

The issue is when? I have been hearing this for decades

 

[syed putra]

If china attacks taiwan, and taiwan blast the three gorges and many other dams, who do you think the people of china will put the blame on?

 

[Hypocrite-The]

If china attacks taiwan, and taiwan blast the three gorges and many other dams, who do you think the people of china will put the blame on?

I doubt fuckein land will blast anything. The fuckeins will surrender b4 the invasion fleet departs. They rather live as the chicons dogs than to die free

 

[tanwahtiu]

News came from Sky News are rubbish. LKY wld hv shut down this station if he is PM of Australia.

Fake Democracy and human rights are rubbish when u have such bad News station damaging the leadership of Australia.

He run a country is tough but having a bad News station insulting the other country is unacceptable.

Kelvin Rudd was right about bad news reporting from Sky News...

 

[tanwahtiu]

Praising themselves like winning is shameful.

Saying the cup is half empty or the cup is half full means the same. Ribbish.

Angmoh still think their whites are more whiter than white in the 21st century.

5 eye are rubbish cities, old and daunting BE style buildings are history fit for 1800 century.

5 eye are becoming less favourable cities and borng places for tourism for millennia kids. Same old shit BE buildings from one State to the next.

They have no colour, one language, no taste and flavour unlike going to Europe you start from one country to the next they are different in languages, culture and food.

You go from the east Queensland and down to NSW and to Western Australia are all the same Pommy drunk pubs and tasteless steak and chips.

Boring people, rude, drunk and racist 2nd class low rated English Pommy descendants from UK...

Even UK English gentlemen don't like English Australians find them low class. That's it.

China-Australia trade war not being won by Beijing​

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It must be a source of increasing frustration for China’s bureaucrats that its own economic successes are overwhelming their efforts to sanction Australia for our less than diplomatic commentary on the origins of the pandemic and China’s treatment of the Uighurs in the Xinjiang region.
While the sanctions on barley, wine, lobsters, coal and other products have bitten, they have been far more than offset by China’s insatiable demand for iron ore and LNG and the spiking prices – in iron ore’s case, soaring prices – of both.

China is trying to reduce its reliance on Australian iron ore. CREDIT: BLOOMBERG
If this is a trade war, Australia is winning its first phase quite handsomely.
The iron ore price is above $US200 a tonne and LNG prices have rebounded from the pandemic to levels last seen two years ago.
In coal, the Australian producers have responded to China’s bans by shifting their exports elsewhere, particularly to India. While the producers might not be getting the same prices as before, China is being forced to buy lower quality coal at higher prices while its competitors benefit from the windfall of high quality Australian coal at lower prices.
It’s not that China hasn’t tried to do something about its reliance on Australian iron ore and LNG.
Last month it announced a series of changes to tariffs on raw materials used in its steel industry to encourage imports of pig iron and scrap steel, along with moves to reduce domestic steel production and encourage domestic iron ore production.
In the context of record steel production – and a function of China’s success in recovering quickly from the worst of the pandemic last year and the strengthening economic recovery emerging in other major economies – the measures are likely to have only modest effects.
In the longer term scrap metal might have a more material role in China’s steel industry – China wants to double production from its electric arc furnaces over the next four or five years – but its ambitions will have only modest impacts on its demand for iron ore and iron ore prices in the medium term.
Along with a crackdown on iron ore futures trading last week – the authorities vowed to punish market manipulation – the actions helped slightly lower the iron ore price, from more than $US230 a tonne to around $US210 a tonne. Iron ore started this year priced at less than $US160 a tonne, having traded down to around $US60 a tonne just over a year ago.
China’s reliance on Australian iron ore for almost two-thirds of its steel industry’s requirements and Vale’s continuing struggles to restore production after its tailing dam disasters and pandemic-related disruptions in Brazil means there is little it can do to curtail purchases of Australian iron ore without hurting its steel industry and economy.
Even if it can develop new sources of supply, with the giant Simandou resource in Guinea the most obvious, they would be higher-cost (development of the infrastructure for Simandou could cost the best part of $US20 billion), are nearly a decade away and would in any event probably represent only about 10 per cent of China’s existing demand.
The big Australian producers – Rio Tinto, BHP and Fortescue – are the low-cost producers and have a significant cost advantage over Brazil because of their proximity to China and therefore their lower shipping costs.
Recognition of that freight advantage and the move to index-related – market, rather than contract -- pricing of iron ore in the last decade transformed the market for iron ore, undermining the leverage buyers had when determining the volumes and prices of contracts in the past.
LNG has different issues. Australia is almost neck and neck with Qatar as the world’s leading producer as China looks to LNG to reduce its usage of coal for energy production.

China could buy more LNG from Qatar and the US (it has a commitment under the Trump era trade truce to buy more LNG from the US, is in talks with Qatar about taking equity in the world’s biggest new project and has been expanding its relationship with Turkmenistan) but LNG is an internationally-traded commodity and demand within the Asia Pacific is strong enough for Australian cargoes to be redeployed elsewhere, as has happened in coal.
A subsidiary complicating factor is that China’s state-owned energy companies have big, multi-billion-dollar equity stakes and long term contracts with the major Australian LNG exporters, so damaging the Australian industry would damage China’s own SOEs.
Two of the three big export projects on Curtis Island in Queensland, for instance, have Chinese SOEs as foundation shareholders and customers.
Sinopec has a 25 per cent interest and was the foundation customer in the Origin Energy-led GLNG consortium while CNOOC has a 50 per cent interest in the first train of Shell’s QGC project. PetroChina is a partner with Shell in the Arrow Energy joint venture. Woodside has long term contracts with Chinese companies.
China has been trying to withdraw the pandemic-related stimulus it injected into its economy last year as part of a wider effort to deleverage and decarbonise and improve the productivity of its industrial base.
That includes efforts to limit steel production. It has targeted a reduction in steel output from the record 1.2 billion tonnes it produced last year and has threatened mills that don’t conform to its directives.
That hasn’t, however, stopped production from setting monthly records this year, probably because the mills are experiencing strong margins.

China has been trying to withdraw the pandemic-related stimulus it injected into its economy last year as part of a wider effort to deleverage and decarbonise and improve the productivity of its industrial base. CREDIT: BLOOMBERG
There’s also a suspicion that China is building up its stocks of vital commodities amid rising geopolitical tensions which, if true, might mean the spikes in commodity prices have a transitory element to them.
It is not in the long term interests of either Australia or China for the diplomatic and trade relationships to continue to deteriorate but in the meantime, despite the damage it has done to some export categories with its tariffs and other sanctions, China hasn’t been able to hurt the Australian producers of the two big commodities that really matter.
Indeed, apart from its purchases of near-record levels of Australian iron ore and LNG at, in iron ore’s case, near-record prices, its actions have prompted Australian companies -- from wine makers to coal miners to LNG exporters – to seek out new markets and reduce their dependence on China which, given the recent relationship, is probably a positive for Australia’s long term national interests.

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[glockman]

China will be regime changed.

The free world must have enough resolve to do this. Once and for all, crush the CCP. Split the vast country up into different smaller countries or have a United States of Chinese.

 

[laksaboy]

The free world must have enough resolve to do this. Once and for all, crush the CCP. Split the vast country up into different smaller countries or have a United States of Chinese.

A coalition is forming now. Think of it as the East Asian (Indo-Pacific) version of NATO.

 

[tanwahtiu]

Poon pe pe is back... missing lately...

 

[tanwahtiu]

A coalition is forming now. Think of it as the East Asian (Indo-Pacific) version of NATO.

Poon pe pe rubbish...

 

[laksaboy]

Poon pe pe rubbish...

It is happening now. No point being in denial about it.

Poon your see lang tao.

 

[glockman]

A coalition is forming now. Think of it as the East Asian (Indo-Pacific) version of NATO.

So, EATO? Or IPTO?

 

[tanwahtiu]

Australia just stick to farmings and suppressing the abo is enough to go by. The land are abo and one day it shall go back to abo w the help of Chinese.

Chinese is not necessary mean China Chinese.... but Asian Chinese...

Gunboats, they can't even produce a single bullet...

 

[syed putra]

I doubt fuckein land will blast anything. The fuckeins will surrender b4 the invasion fleet departs. They rather live as the chicons dogs than to die free

Taiwanese should be more ambitious and aim for a greater hokkien country including parts of mainland china.

 

[Hypocrite-The]

Bulk Buys: China tells iron ore players to stop with the high prices, or else - Stockhead​

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Early last week, Chinese premier Li Keqiang said China needed to take more steps to curb “unreasonable” price increases for bulk commodities, right after we wrote this:
Lol. Hubris.
…which aged badly. Iron ore prices have fallen below $US200/t since.
On Sunday, China’s main economic planning body the NDRC and four other regulators met with domestic steel, iron ore, copper and aluminium companies for a serious convo.
“[This] meeting pointed out that this round of price rises is the result of a combination of many factors, including malicious speculation, urging companies to take the lead in maintaining pricing order in commodity markets, not to collude with each other to manipulate market prices and not to fabricate and spread false information about price increases,” Argus says.
“Relevant regulatory authorities will closely track and monitor the trend of commodity prices, strengthen linkage supervision on commodity futures and spot markets and have zero tolerance for illegal activity, the meeting said.”
How exactly will prices be kept to a ‘reasonable’ level, you ask? What is a reasonable level? Will prices ever go over $US200/t again?
We don’t know, yet, but fear, uncertainty and doubt have certainly stifled market sentiment.
The Argus ICX 62% index has now dropped ~18.7% from a record high of $US235.55/t hit on 12 May.
“Mills’ demand is gradually shifting to medium and low-grade ores amid the squeezed margins, coupled with market uncertainty,” a Shandong trader told Argus.
“Most participants were on the sidelines, waiting for a clearer direction,” a Hebei trader also said.
Well played, Li Keqiang.
For obvious reasons it was generally a pretty bad week for iron ore stocks, but — in the context of some mammoth share price gains made over the past year — there’s really nothing to worry about yet.
Ion ore prices are still up ~15% year to date.
Here’s how ASX-listed iron ore stocks are performing:
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CODE	COMPANY	1 WEEK CHANGE %	1 MONTH CHANGE %	6 MONTH CHANGE %	1 YEAR CHANGE %	PRICE	MARKET CAP
ACS	Accent Resources NL	32	56	400	900	0.05	$ 23,301,364.15
BCK	Brockman Mining	9	-26	85	92	0.05	$ 445,403,142.29
CZR	CZR Resources	7	25	7	50	0.015	$ 41,368,773.96
DRE	Dreadnought Resources	6	42	6	410	0.0255	$ 61,707,294.03
MAG	Magmatic Resrce	5	18	14	-41	0.195	$ 44,963,856.84
TI1	Tombador Iron	5	44	128	399	0.105	$ 100,641,506.50
HAW	Hawthorn Resources	4	-14	-53	-57	0.049	$ 15,675,233.81
SRN	Surefire Rescs NL	4	0	-19	733	0.025	$ 26,331,849.84
MGT	Magnetite Mines	3	3	550	3442	0.065	$ 206,737,285.80
HAV	Havilah Resources	2	31	57	175	0.275	$ 84,991,930.77
EFE	Eastern Iron	0	7	18	195	0.011	$ 8,942,781.17
SHH	Shree Minerals	0	-12	36	275	0.015	$ 15,153,553.38
RHI	Red Hill Iron	0	83	352	579	0.95	$ 53,890,334.10
LCY	Legacy Iron Ore	0	-17	114	650	0.015	$ 96,071,077.76
ADY	Admiralty Resources.	0	-14	27	46	0.019	$ 22,023,559.28
GRR	Grange Resources.	-2	-15	86	109	0.5	$ 584,456,042.49
MIN	Mineral Resources.	-2	-5	38	131	43.71	$ 8,206,240,497.36
IRD	Iron Road	-3	-19	34	337	0.195	$ 155,701,230.55
GEN	Genmin	-3	6			0.28	$ 78,211,776.44
RIO	Rio Tinto Limited	-4	0	17	33	121.07	$ 44,360,337,573.00
MGU	Magnum Mining & Exp	-5	-13	228	425	0.16	$ 73,486,349.87
BHP	BHP Group Limited	-5	-1	23	38	47.29	$ 138,072,054,836.78
FMG	Fortescue Metals Grp	-6	1	20	60	21.8	$ 65,797,480,297.66
AKO	Akora Resources	-7	-5			0.28	$ 14,599,296.00
CIA	Champion Iron	-7	-2	42	167	6.68	$ 3,407,507,783.72
MIO	Macarthur Minerals	-9	-13	-13	121	0.42	$ 60,356,578.05
MGX	Mount Gibson Iron	-9	-3	12	29	0.87	$ 1,037,677,530.75
TLM	Talisman Mining	-12	52	83	129	0.22	$ 41,991,386.63
FEX	Fenix Resources	-13	-8	93	314	0.29	$ 140,089,176.00
FMS	Flinders Mines	-14	-27	8	73	0.87	$ 146,898,261.99
GWR	GWR Group	-15	-16	55	270	0.255	$ 80,238,407.40
SRK	Strike Resources	-15	-2	83	315	0.22	$ 55,605,210.30
VMS	Venture Minerals	-16	37	137	506	0.097	$ 132,417,928.30
RLC	Reedy Lagoon Corp.	-16	-27	23	300	0.016	$ 7,520,418.66
JNO	Juno	-18				0.18	$ 24,418,440.18
MDX	Mindax Limited	-23	2100	2100	2100	0.066	$ 120,930,562.93
CAP	Carpentaria Resource	-34	139	184	357	0.105	$ 47,574,064.50

 

[Hypocrite-The]

Taiwanese should be more ambitious and aim for a greater hokkien country including parts of mainland china.

That will be the day. Considering how the fuckeins have capitulated to the fuckkas n ChiCons. I won't b surprised if the fuckeins end up calling themselves northerners soon.