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Natural Resources
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In families one can’t choose one’s siblings. Within regions one doesn’t choose one’s neighbors. And if you are one of the world’s leading producers of a critical industrial resource like copper, in the end you can’t really choose your customers. China and Zambia will just have to get along.
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― China's Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa
― China's Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa
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We are coming to recognize as never before the right of the nation to guard its own future in the essential matter of natural resources. In the past we have admitted the right of the individual to injure the future of the Republic for his own present profit. In fact, there has been a good deal of a demand for unrestricted individualism, for the right of the individual to injure the future of all of us for his own temporary and immediate profit. The time has come for a change. As a people, we hav
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― Roosevelt's Writings: Selections from the Writings of Theodore Roosevelt
― Roosevelt's Writings: Selections from the Writings of Theodore Roosevelt
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