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For Chinalco, It's All About Who You Know

"As a westerner, the large scale deployment of Chinese funds to take advantage of the misfortunes of Russian, Australian, and Canadian resource corporations selling at fire sale prices will have profound ramifications."

Apart from the bad grammar, the thinking behind this sentence is also wrong.

As a Rio Tinto shareholder, I would be delighted if the deal goes through and I would welcome that my prime customer has a seat on my Board, rather than on the competition's.

"Westerners" do not have fundamentally different interests than Chinese.
If our economies and finances get intertwined to the point of inseparability, as they have been with Japan since the sixties, it is only a good thing for the world.