Picking fights with neighbors over minor issues is pointless, especially now, and on this point Krugman and I are in synch.
因矿产资源同邻国产生争执是无意义的，特别是在当前形势下。我和克鲁格曼在在这个观点是一致的。Traders here say that it would be extremely difficult to find other sources of the minerals if shipments continue to be held up.
贸易商们表示，如果出口继续被终止，找到此类矿产的其他货源是极其困难的。At the moment she might be able to afford it. Demand for Liberian minerals is robust.
目前她也许还负担得起，因为对利比里亚矿产的需求还很强健。He is trying to counter the impression in parts of Africa that China is engaged in a neo-colonial scramble for mineral resources.
他正在努力改变非洲部分地区对中国的不良印象，即中国正在对非洲矿产资源进行新殖民主义式的争夺。Mineral lands reserve was one of the important form in mineral strategy reserve.
矿产地储备是矿产资源战略储备的重要形式之一。China Railway said it had "added development of mineral resources as one of its principal operations" .
中国铁建表示，“已将矿产资源开发作为公司的主营业务之一”。To strengthen the theoretic study of strategic mineral resources is one of the keys to set up the safety system of national resources.
战略性矿产资源的基础研究是建立国家安全体系的关键之一。China is trying to do the same as it looks overseas for food, fuel and minerals to satisfy the rising demand of its cities and factories.
现如今中国在向海外寻找食物、能源和矿产的同时，也正在试图做同样地事。He said he was hunting for high-grade copper, bauxite, iron ore and coal resources, the minerals that China needs to fuel its urbanisation.
熊维平表示，他正在物色高品位的铜、铝矾土、铁矿石和煤炭资源，这些都是中国推进其城市化进程所必需的矿产。