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It was a bigger deal that for the first half of 2009 squatted in the headlines of the business papers and at the top of the M&A league tables, refusing to budge and squashing the competition. Chinalco’s $19.5 billion investment in Anglo-Australian mining group Rio Tinto would have been the largest ever investment in a foreign company by a Chinese firm – the deal to stand as the flagbearer for China’s drive to acquire overseas resources.