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Beneath a ridge in Guinea’s southern highlands lies one of the world's largest deposits of iron ore. Chinese investment has got it out of the ground after decades of delays. But will the Simandou mining project give China the upper hand it hopes?

Hosts: Jiehao Chen, The Economist’s China researcher, and Corbin Duncan, our global correspondent.


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