Pax Silica: How US-led tech dominance threatens Philippine sovereignty
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Summary
This article analyzes the US-led Pax Silica initiative (established December 2025) as a strategic effort by the US and 14 other high-tech countries to counter China's dominance in semiconductors, AI, and high-level technology through control of global supply chains. The author argues that the Philippines risks becoming a militarized industrial node within this framework, losing economic sovereignty and being transformed into a hub for imperialist war and militarized AI infrastructure. The piece, written from a leftist/progressive perspective, warns that Pax Silica represents a new form of technological colonialism that will exploit Philippine resources and labor while subjecting the country to US geopolitical interests.
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Becoming a military-industrial node within this project means the Philippines will lose out.
Reject Pax Silica and the Philippines' transformation into a hub of imperialist war and militarised AI infrastructure.
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