Pax Silica Initiative:
The Congress party recently targeted the Prime Minister over India’s exclusion from the United States-led strategic initiative, Pax Silica, citing the ‘sharp downturn’ in his relations with US President.
- It is a U.S.-led strategic initiative to build a secure, prosperous, and innovation-driven silicon supply chain—from critical minerals and energy inputs to advanced manufacturing, semiconductors, artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, and logistics.
- The term ‘Pax Silica’ comes from the Latin term ‘pax’ which means peace, stability, and long-term prosperity.
- Silica refers to the compound that is refined into silicon, one of the chemical elements foundational to the computer chips that enable AI.
- It aims to reduce coercive dependencies, protect the materials and capabilities foundational to AI, and ensure aligned nations can develop and deploy transformative technologies at scale.
- Countries Part of Pax Silica:
- Japan
- South Korea
- Singapore
- Netherlands
- United Kingdom
- Israel
- United Arab Emirates
- Australia
- Countries Affirmed a Shared Commitment To Pursue projects to jointly address AI supply chain opportunities and vulnerabilities in priority critical minerals, semiconductor design, fabrication, and packaging, logistics and transportation, compute, and energy grids and power generation.
- Pursue new joint ventures and strategic co-investment opportunities.
- Protect sensitive technologies and critical infrastructure from undue access or control by countries of concern.
- Build trusted technology ecosystems, including ICT systems, fiber-optic cables, data centers, foundational models and applications.
