On June 25-26, 2026, over thirty economies gathered in Washington for the second Pax Silica Summit, organized by the US State Department. At the summit, ten new partners signed the founding declaration of the initiative, including the European Union, Germany, and the Netherlands. Their accession has brought the initiative to 24 member states in the six months since its launch. A wider circle of 35 states, stretching from India and Japan to Turkiye and the Gulf monarchies, endorsed the parallel Joint Statement on AI Opportunity. The name of the initiative, Pax, echoes the terms of Pax Romana and Pax Americana and signifies ambition on the part of the US.

What Has Actually Been Built

The Pax Silica initiative being undertaken by the State Department emphasizes the use of AI technology in the context of supply chain security and has been adopted by seven states in a Washington signing ceremony dated December 12, 2025. The declaration implies the commitment of the signatories to cooperate in the field of the technology stack as defined in history. It includes the following components of the technology stack: frontier AI models, software platforms, semiconductors, and compute. It mentions the infrastructure, advanced manufacturing, transportation, minerals refining, and energy production aspects of technology stacks as well. The initiative envisages the establishment of joint ventures, coordination of investment screening, and limitation of foreign adversary access to the necessary technologies and infrastructure.

The summit that took place in June brought about the creation of new mechanisms of operation. The U.S. Department of State published outcomes of the summit, stating that Washington promised a contribution amounting to $250 million to an investment consortium financing energy supply chains and chains of critical minerals, a credentialing platform for supply chain management which would start with the work of Panama’s port and customs authorities and will allow making clearance of shipments containing various minerals and semiconductors faster, as well as workforce initiative, which is being implemented in cooperation with Stanford University. When taken separately, none of these instruments is impressive according to American standards of foreign policy, but........

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