Name
Strategic Presentation: The Great Powers Era 2.0: China’s Rare Earth Dominance and the Challenge of Building Western Supply Chains
Date & Time
Wednesday, February 17, 2027, 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Daniel O’Connor
Description
  • Understanding why control of refining, processing and manufacturing increasingly defines national power 

  • Examining how China built an integrated rare earth industrial ecosystem and why Western nations cannot replicate it alone 

  • Exploring how allied supply-chain networks can combine financing, technology and production to build competitive alternatives 

  • Assessing the implications for capital allocation, supply-chain risk and country-of-origin exposure 

  • Understanding why the cost of building resilient supply chains may drive structural inflation over the long term