This announcement is certainly consistent with China's tougher (more disciplined) stance in the iron ore contract negotiations.

Pension funds have become increasingly active investors in commodities, and the growth in the quantum of funds invested has been truly spectacular.

It appears the Chinese government is now trying all it can to slow down iron ore imports and control spot prices during the negotiations.

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We are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... he has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.

The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought to America and made slaves, and then the name of the slave master was given, which we refuse, we reject that name today and refuse it. I never acknowledge it whatsoever.