chinese firms want to buy coal assets overseas

"There definitely is Chinese appetite for coal assets," Andrew Lawson, managing director of Cockatoo Coal Ltd, told Reuters last month after lining up funds from three Asian firms for a coal expansion. "That's the main area we would expect to see demand come from."

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