Henry Sanderson covered commodities and mining for the Financial Times for seven years. Prior to that he lived and worked in Beijing, where he was a correspondent for Bloomberg and coauthored a book, China's Superbank, about China's state capitalism and its impact on countries from Venezuela to Ethiopia. He tweets at @hjesanderson.
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In the twentieth century, wealth and power was dictated by access to oil. This century will have different kingmakers, perhaps different wars. We depend on a handful of metals and rare earths to power our phones and computers. Increasingly, we rely on ... SEE MORE