Jairam Ramesh Has Slammed The Central Government For India’s Exclusion from US Led Pax Silica Initiative.

New Delhi; December 2025: Congress MP Jairam Ramesh, while reacting to India’s exclusion from the US-led Pax Silica initiative, said the move is a result of the deteriorating relationship between US

President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi since May 10th this year, and added that India would have benefited had it been part of the initiative.

In a post on X, Ramesh said,

“According to some news reports, the US has excluded India from a nine-nation initiative it has launched to reduce Chinese control on high tech supply chains. The agreement is called

Pax Silica clearly as a counter to Pax Sinica. The nations included for the moment at least

are the US, Japan, Republic of Korea, Singapore, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom,

Israel, United Arab Emirates, and Australia; Given the sharp downturn in the

Trump-Modi ties since May 10th, 2025, it is perhaps not very surprising

that India has not been included. Undoubtedly it would have

 been to our advantage if we had been part of this group“.

The Congress MP also questioned the timing of the move, noting that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had recently spoken by phone with Trump, which the former described as “warm” and “engaging”.

“This news comes a day after the PM had enthusiastically posted on his telephone call with his once-upon-a-time good friend and a recipient of many hugs in Ahmedabad, Houston, and Washington DC“, added Ramesh.

Pax Silica is the US Department of State’s flagship initiative on artificial intelligence and supply chain

security, which aims to build a shared economic security framework among allies and trusted partners. According to the US Department of State, this initiative aims to create a silicon supply chain that spans critical minerals and energy inputs, advanced manufacturing, semiconductors, AI infrastructure, and logistics. The initiative also aims to reduce coercive dependencies, protect materials and capabilities

critical to artificial intelligence, and enable aligned nations to develop and deploy transformative technologies at scale.

Earlier, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a “very warm and engaging conversation” with US President Donald Trump, and the two leaders agreed to work closely to address shared challenges and advance common interests. During the telephone conversation, the two leaders reviewed the steady progress in India-U.S. bilateral relations and exchanged views on key regional and global developments.

“Had a very warm and engaging conversation with President Trump. We reviewed the progress in our bilateral relations and discussed regional and international developments. India and the U.S. will continue to work together for global peace, stability and prosperity“, PM Modi had said in a post on X.

The two leaders reviewed progress on the India-US Comprehensive Global Strategic Partnership and expressed satisfaction with the steady strengthening of bilateral cooperation across all domains.

The development is the aftermath of Pax Silica, a US-led strategic initiative to build a secure, prosperous, and innovation-driven silicon supply chain, has been formed with declaration signed on Friday – 12th December 2025, partnering Australia, Japan, South Korea, the United Kingdom, Israel, Singapore, and US itself signed a declaration at the Pax Silica Summit in Washington DC.

The pact is aimed at building a secure, prosperous, and innovation-driven silicon supply chain, from critical minerals and energy inputs to advanced manufacturing, semiconductors, AI infrastructure, and logistics. Pax Silica aims to reduce coercive dependencies, protect the materials and capabilities

foundational to artificial intelligence, and ensure aligned nations can develop and deploy transformative technologies at scale, according to a statement from the US Department of State.

“Pax Silica is a positive-sum partnership. It is not about isolating others, but about coordinating with partners who want to remain competitive and prosperous“, Office of the spokesperson of the US State Department said.

According to the US administration, across the United States and partner nations, a clear consensus has emerged that securing supply chains, trusted technology, and resilient infrastructure is indispensable to national power and economic growth.

The Pax Silica initiative responds to growing demand from partners to deepen economic and technology cooperation with the United States; the understanding that AI represents a transformative force for our long-term prosperity; recognition that trustworthy systems are essential for safeguarding our mutual security and prosperity; increasing risks from coercive dependencies; and the importance of fair market practices and policy coordination to protect sensitive technologies and critical infrastructure, the statement said.

AI is reorganising the world economy. Economic value will increasingly flow through all levels of the global AI supply chain, driving historic opportunity and demand for energy, critical minerals, semiconductors, manufacturing, technological hardware, infrastructure, and new markets not yet invented.

“Pax Silica” draws from the Latin pax — meaning peace, stability, and long-term prosperity, as seen in terms like Pax Americana and Pax Romana. Silica refers to the compound that is refined into silicon, one of the chemical elements foundational to the computer chips that enable artificial intelligence.

Pax Silica seeks to establish a durable economic order that underwrites an AI-driven era of prosperity across partner countries.

Countries will partner on securing strategic stacks of the global technology supply chain, including, but not limited to:

• software applications and platforms,
• frontier foundation models,
• information connectivity and network infrastructure,
• compute and semiconductors, advanced manufacturing,
• transportation logistics,
• minerals refining and processing,
• energy.

Countries part of this initiative affirmed a shared commitment to pursue projects to jointly address AI supply chain opportunities and vulnerabilities in priority critical minerals, semiconductor design, fabrication, and packaging, logistics and transportation, compute, and energy grids and power generation. They also affirmed their intention to pursue new joint ventures and strategic co-investment opportunities; to protect sensitive technologies and critical infrastructure from undue access or control by countries of concern; and to build trusted technology ecosystems, including ICT systems, fibre optic cables, data centres, foundational models, and applications.

“Through this cooperation, we pursue a comprehensive economic partnership to build an economic security order based on trust, technological complementarity, shared interests, and a shared commitment to a more prosperous future“, the joint declaration read, dated December 13.

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