China gets testy with mining executives

Tom Jackson
Jan 15, 2010

Just weeks after Rio Tinto outmaneuvered a state run Chinese mining consortium on the rights to dig iron ore in Australia, the Chinese government has “detained”four Rio Tinto executives.

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