Philippine President Marcos Jr. with US State Department Secretary Marco Rubio. (Photo from Presidential Communications Office)
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The US-led Pax Silica initiative was created to strengthen trusted supply chains for semiconductors, artificial intelligence infrastructure, and other strategic technologies among allied nations.
The Philippines has signaled its participation but has been confronted with early opposition from non-government agencies. But that is expected.
There are two immensely informative and entertaining reads on the Pax Silica initiative. The first is TechSabado’s piece on the post Marco Rubio visit, and the second is a truly lengthy and complete dissertation by Engineer Pierre Tito Gala published in Newsbytes. This op-ed alone became the source of information for many other articles and opinions, some coming from dubious sources or persons of dubious natures and backgrounds pushing a sensationalist agenda — the “neocolonialism of technology,” as if technology itself is a political issue. But that’s not what I am writing about.
