Instead of feeling panic, she dipped into her plentiful reserve of confidence.
Together they announced an Indian-financed project to refurbish a port, river and roads in Myanmar, a deal that may allow India to elbow its way into the plentiful energy reserves of a country that has become a virtual well of resources for Beijing.
Despite the long-standing prominence of the mining industry, in general, Spain's mineral resources are limited, and the country's once-plentiful coal reserves are no longer sufficient for its energy needs.
With its huge oil and gas revenues and its plentiful foreign-exchange reserves, Russia isn't in immediate danger of being plunged into a Greek-style crisis, or even into the sort of financial problems that countries like Spain and Portugal have experienced.
It's not that the potential for greener energy projects isn't there: the continent has some of the world's best solar reserves, plentiful wind along the coasts, geothermal in the East African rift, and other resources to tap.
