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Pax Silica: Who Owns the Rails of the AI Civilization?

The Beijing summit, May 2026. President Trump arrived this week with a delegation of eighteen of America’s most powerful corporate executives — including Elon Musk and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang aboard Air Force One — to negotiate the future of the AI supply chain with Xi Jinping’s government.

The State Department calls it Pax Silica: a U.S.-led AI and supply-chain framework built around secure technology supply chains, economic security, artificial intelligence, critical minerals, semiconductors, energy, manufacturing, infrastructure, and “trustworthy systems.” The declaration signed in Washington on December 12, 2025 described the objective as building secure, prosperous, and innovative global technology supply chains.