OPINION. With its current approach, Europe risks supporting projects with critical resources, then seeing their production, or even their ownership, escape from it once they become viable, write economist Jakob Hensing and political scientist Ricardo Soares of Oliveira in 2025 has vividly confirmed Europe's dependence on China for critical raw materials.The export restrictions imposed by Beijing threatening the continent's rearmament efforts suc…
OPINION. With its current approach, Europe risks supporting projects with critical resources, then seeing their production, or even their ownership, escape from it once they become viable, write economist Jakob Hensing and political scientist Ricardo Soares of Oliveira in 2025 has vividly confirmed Europe's dependence on China for critical raw materials.The export restrictions imposed by Beijing threatening the continent's rearmament efforts suc…