Western Investors Might Not Yet Have Redeveloped An Appetite For Resources But China Certainly Has
Over the past 12 months a series of deals has seen Chinese companies soak up surplus assets being offloaded by western companies or, more recently, step up their buying demands by launching unsolicited takeover offers.
The latest raid came on Tuesday when Guangdong Rising made a $1.4 billion, all-cash offer, for full control of the Australian-base copper producer, PanAust. That followed a similar $1.4 billion all-cash offer by China’s biggest steel-maker Baosteel, in conjunction with an Australian rail operator, Aurizon, for the iron ore project developer, Aquila Resources.
