Several countries have supported the United States of America’s broad initiative to shore up its capability to secure its supply chains for artificial intelligence (AI) and semiconductor, not to mention rare earth production.
They are called the Pax Silica proponents, and it is important to know what these countries are providing the US to further the Americans’ economic and military interests through this new system.
On the surface, the State Department’s plan of pairing complementary strengths across allied nations so that they may contribute to this program through their specific, specialized advantages across the tech stack is viable from the point of view of MAGA.
How this new arrangement would redound to risks of attack from America’s enemies, with the possible deaths and destruction to peoples of these countries, is clearly despicable since tech facilities like these are magnets of attacks in case of another American war.
Initial details of Pax Silica reveal that Japan will put in high-level precision manufacturing and equipment capabilities critical to microchip fabrication. South Korea will contribute massive, globally dominant semiconductor production capacity while Australia will provide basic raw materials and mineral wealth needed for chip production.
Singapore will contribute its expertise in logistics and sovereign financing necessary to scale up AI data centers. The duo of Qatar and the United Arab Emirates will capitalize on “energy-for-compute” by offering cheap industrial-scale energy while the UK and Israel will contribute AI model design.
As for the Philippines, the US has arranged with President Bongbong Marcos for free use of some 1,619 hectares of land in the New Clark City in Tarlac for the Luzon Economic Corridor that will accelerate the allied manufacturing and advanced packaging of the semiconductor products.
The United States considers its keen competition with China in the areas of semiconductors, artificial intelligence and critical minerals, both extraction and refining of rare earth minerals, as a national survival issue.
This situation has become an American emergency especially when the Donald Trump administration found itself unable to control Israel’s resolve to start a war of choice in West Asia, particularly against Iran.
But even before this shooting war, the contest between China and America had been pronounced, with each flexing their economic and military muscles. The US realized that if it is to continue engaging China in the race for technological innovation, it has to secure its supply chains of the needed minerals and other resources.
For all intents and purposes, this will be a humongous US territory carved out of Central Luzon, and will definitely impact on the environment, energy and water resources of the region without regard for the sentiments of CL residents.
Pax Silica in the Philippines is another tribute or burden for the Filipino people to benefit America and its oligarchy in Wall Street and the industrial-military complex. And the end goal is to put a hurdle on the rise of China as a global superpower.
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