On 5-8 March, Valery Konyshev, Chief Researcher, Strategical Planning and Eurasian Integration Research Laboratory, RANEPA St. Petersburg, participated as a speaker in the 11th International Conference “Raisina Dialogue 2026”, held in New Delhi, India.
Representatives of over 130 countries joined the large-scale event organized by the Observer Research Foundation in partnership with the Ministry of External Affairs of India and focused on geopolitics and geoeconomics in the Asian region.
In the “Greenland at the Center of US-China Strategic Competition in the Arctic” presentation* Prof. Dr. Konushev highlighted one of the lines of growing rivalry between the US and China over control of the mining and production of rare earth metals, crucial for the development of future high technologies.
This rivalry will have a direct impact on US policy toward not only China but also Russia, which possesses the richest ores in the Russian Arctic but lacks full-cycle rare earth metal processing technologies. This situation presents Russia with the prospect of both bilateral and multilateral cooperation within the BRICS format.
Amid the growing geopolitical turbulence and the restructuring of supply chains for critical raw materials, the presentation drew the attention of the audience to the role of the Russian Arctic as a key factor in the global economy’s future.
*The presentation was prepared under support of the Russian Science Foundation as part of the project “Modeling Arctic Cooperation within BRICS: Opportunities and Challenges for Russia in the Era of Global Turbulence” No. 25-18-00379.
