Conclusion: The REE and the Real Problem

Abstract

The United States declare trade war against China was a headline dated March 13, 2012 on the German internet news platform N-TV which broached the issue of a newsworthy claim of the US, the EU and Japan against China concerning their restrictive handling of trade with REE, molybdenum and tungsten. This approach was expected as a succession of the WTO claims described in the chapter about China above. It was not as surprising as the headlines might imply. Nevertheless the reporting remained on a top level with known arguments. So there seems to be a real problem concerning the REE. It has also been discussed above that the static range of the REE is in excess of 850 years and subject to a further increase of range as lots of exploration teams show promising results. So this unfolds that there is no physical or geological issue but something else.