China’s Aiming at the Greek REEs

Following the first international conference on rare earth elements[1], which was held in Greece in September 2014, the Chinese proposed to the Greeks to establish a technical and scientific cooperation in this field and subsequently to exploit the latters’ existing reserves. But behind this interesting proposal for Greece is the question of strategic security of Europe that defined the REEs as critical materials for its very high technology industry.

From 4 to 7 September 2014, was therefore held in ...