As I mentioned in my opening remarks, China is integrated. The Critical Metals Institute is in the U.S. under the DOE. I've been invited by Erocon to talk to the European Community next week.
Did you notice that I didn't name a country? I named nations or individual companies.
The Rohstoff Allianz, an association of German manufacturers, is saying, “I have this demand, you have that demand”. They don't necessarily want to share what their individual demands are, but by aggregating them, these become national interests. To the Europeans I think the European free trade agreement is a perfect opportunity to bring.... Europeans are manufacturers, they're assemblers, and they bring equipment. Canada brings mining and metallurgy. Together we can combine that to develop a.... That doesn't mean selling one product to the other, but it could, if Canada takes interest in some of these further downstream and as an end user looking upstream and saying, “We can work these out”.
But if you look at it, there are actually U.S.-EU-Japan trilateral meetings handled annually—that's nation to nation to nation—and they bring the industry and the collaborators together.