Trend Resource nationalism rises while major economies race to stabilise critical mineral supply chains

Summary

Resource-holding countries are designating critical minerals as strategic minerals and tightening control over them. Their tools include nationalisation, limits on resource development and export controls, which KISTEP describes as resource nationalism or weaponisation. In response, the United States, the EU and Japan are pursuing supply-chain stabilisation and diversification. Their measures span resource development, stockpiling and the promotion of recycling industries. The report presents this contest as a structural shift that raises the strategic value of mineral technology and supply planning.