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China blocks Coke, will Australia block China?

WILL the blocking of Coca-Cola’s attempt to take over a Chinese drink maker prove a complication for the Rio Tinto-Chinalco deal and the other Chinese buy-ins into the Australian mining sector?

Kate Haycock
China blocks Coke, will Australia block China?

A bid from Coca-Cola to buy Chinese drink maker Huiyuan for $US2.4 billion was scuttled this week by the Chinese government, which cited anti-monopoly reasons as the key to its decision to block the takeover....

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