Thank you for the question. It's a fascinating question and probably would be best directed, in a way, to Zijin Mining, which is the company that has acquired Neo Lithium for a billion-dollar price tag.
One thing that's interesting about Zijin Mining, as you see if you look at the company's corporate history, is that it began as a gold miner in China. It expanded overseas, principally in gold and other base metal extractions. The Neo Lithium takeover by Zijin, to the best of my knowledge from the available public documentation on Zijin, is the first such acquisition that it has made. I'm presuming—I can't speak for the company's directors, owners and whatever passes for shareholders in a Chinese SOE context—that they looked at and did their due diligence on the Argentinian mine, which is recorded in Neo Lithium public documents on the transaction. I'm presuming simply that they looked at that asset, thought about the future, thought about how they wanted to position themselves as a global miner and as a potential future Chinese industrial champion, as the Chinese strategy has it, and thought that was a terrifically important acquisition for them.
The question for me, I must say, is that if we're going to think about foreign direct investment in a national security and economic security strategy, we also have to do what is known, in intelligence terms, as a “net assessment”, which essentially means that you think about your own interest in this investment and you also think, “Why is a foreign company also interested in this investment?” I hope—and perhaps this is a question for officials when they appear tomorrow—some due consideration was given to that very question, which I think is implicit in your question.