Forging the Pax Silica - by Anton Leicht
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Can the Western alliance be rebuilt on techno-strategical leverage?
The Trump administration is moving to change the underpinnings of American alliances from shared values to mutual technological leverage. If the US can convince its allies to play their part, a narrow path toward a stable global order might still lie ahead. In that vein, last week, Under Secretary of State Jacob Helberg announced the ‘Pax Silica‘ initiative. It seeks to restructure bilateral alliances around access to critical technologies: an offer to import and partake in US software and AI infrastructure, in exchange for access to allied capabilities in semiconductor manufacturing,…
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