Microchips, Oil and Soybeans: The Global Impact of China’s Imports
What China buys and where it buys it have reshaped supply chains, commodity flows and trade balances worldwide.
What China buys and where it buys it have reshaped supply chains, commodity flows and trade balances worldwide.
China and the U.S. account for 36% of the world’s oil refining capacity, and only five economies control half of the world’s capacity.
China’s Five-Year Plans steered economic development from investment- and export-led expansion toward more balanced, high-quality growth.
Asia’s share of global imports is dominant across key industrial commodities, with China driving regional demand and shaping global supply chains.
China is the world’s largest consumer of energy and runs large trade deficits for primary fuels, especially crude oil and petroleum gases.
China dominates global exports across mining-related product categories, underscoring its indispensable role in global mining supply chains.
Kobus van der Wath delivered a keynote address at the International Mineral Asset Valuation Conference 2025.
China is the world’s leading processor of nearly all minerals and metals, and is the top exporter of several critical minerals.
ANDAMAN PARTNERS examines China's role in global resources, which is complex, comprehensive and consequential.
The world’s most dynamic economies with sustained economic growth are clustered in Africa as well as South, Central and Southeast Asia.