By Stuart Burns
Two features of Chinese political and industrial policy have been consistent over the years: the willingness to plan long term and deep pockets to finance those plans.
A major state-owned steelmaker and mining company, Sinosteel, has epitomized this in western Australia.
The steelmaker has bought into the region's lower-grade iron ore resources back in the last decade, in what was seen at the time as a potential rival to the country's largest iron ore producing region further north at Pilbara.
A collapse in iron ore prices largely brought a