China, South Korea, and India have all made major investments in African land and raw material reserves in recent years.

The 1963 meeting of WAAS had dealt with the population explosion and the raw material reserves and food resources of the earth.

The war was the result of a decades-long Japanese imperialist policy aiming to dominate China politically and militarily and to secure its vast raw material reserves and other economic resources, particularly food and labour.

A resource-efficient Europe is the right approach - we have meagre energy reserves and meagre raw material reserves - but there is a lack of targets and instruments to bring us to this point of resource efficiency in our production and in our consumption.