Qatar Has Signed Pax Silica Declaration.

Washington; January 2026: Today on 12th January 2026, Qatar have signed the Pax Silica Declaration, marking a historic milestone in the region’s economic integration. Together, the United States of America and Qatar affirm a new geopolitical consensus that economic security is national security, and national security is economic security.

Qatar’s leadership and commitment in investing in the secure energy, advanced technology, and critical minerals supply chains make it an indispensable partner in this effort, placing Qatar in the vanguard of nations that will drive the next stage of global economic growth.

Qatar’s accession to Pax Silica was signed by Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs Jacob Helberg and Minister of State for Foreign Trade Affairs Ahmed bin Mohammed Al-Sayed. The United States and Qatar affirmed their commitment to pursue multi layered partnerships that strengthen supply chain security, address coercive dependencies and single points of failure, and advance the adoption of trusted technology ecosystems. They will explore opportunities to partner on flagship projects across global technology stacks, including connectivity and digital infrastructure, compute and semiconductors, advanced manufacturing, logistics, mineral refining and processing, and energy.

Pax Silica is an economic security coalition built for the AI age. This is the first time countries are organising around compute, silicon, minerals, and energy as shared strategic assets.

The United States welcomed Qatar as the 08th Pax Silica signatory. They joined signatories from Australia, Israel, Japan, Republic of Korea, Singapore, and the United Kingdom. Additional signatories are expected to follow. Pax Silica is a positive-sum partnership of nations that want to remain competitive and prosperous.

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Pax Silica is the Department of State’s flagship effort on AI and supply chain security, advancing new economic security consensus among allies and trusted partners.

Jacob Helberg, Under Secretary for Economic Affairs have reiterated, “If the 20th century ran on oil and steel, the 21st century runs on compute and the minerals that feed it. This historic declaration hails a new economic security consensus ensuring aligned partners build the AI ecosystem of tomorrow, from energy and critical minerals to high-end manufacturing and models”.

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“We affirm our shared commitment to advance mutual prosperity, technological progress, and economic security for our peoples.

We recognise that a reliable supply chain is indispensable to our mutual economic security. We also recognise that artificial intelligence (AI) represents a transformative force for our long-term prosperity and that trustworthy systems are essential to safeguarding our mutual security and prosperity.

We recognise that the technological revolution in AI is accelerating, increasingly reorganising the world economy, and reshaping global supply chains. We believe that economic value and growth will flow through and across all levels of the global AI supply chain, driving historic opportunity and demand for energy, critical minerals, manufacturing, technological hardware, infrastructure, and new markets not yet invented.

In this spirit, we declare our shared vision to deepen our economic partnership through shared efforts on investment security practices, infrastructure, and incentives.  

We encourage efforts to partner on 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, and energy.

We believe in mobilising the immense creative and financial power of private industry and entrepreneurship to make our citizens more prosperous, our nations stronger, and our supply chains more secure. We seek scalable approaches and solutions to supply chain security by mobilising the complementary industrial and technological strengths of strategic companies and firms from our respective economies.

We support the promotion of a shared and trusted ecosystem of AI developers and vendors to renew legacy industries and unlock new markets and services for the lasting prosperity of our peoples.

We believe that true economic security requires reducing excessive dependencies and forging new connections with reliable partners and suppliers committed to fair market practices. At the same time, we will endeavour to provide access to trusted partners to the full stack of technological advancements that are shaping the AI economy.

We understand the importance of addressing non-market practices that undermine innovation and fair competition. We believe that coordination is essential to protect private investment from the market distortions of overcapacity and unfair dumping practices, and to preserve a level playing field for innovation and growth. We understand the importance of cooperation on the enforcement of our respective policies to protect sensitive technologies and critical infrastructure from undue access, influence, or control.   

In this spirit, we intend to further strengthen economic and national security cooperation, including taking complementary actions as appropriate to address non-market policies and practices and enhancing investment security.

We seek to build and deploy trusted information networks, including information and communication technology systems, fibreoptic cables, and data centres.  

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”.

Team Maverick.