Congress questions India’s omission from US-led Pax Silica initiative, calls it a ‘missed opportunity’
According to the US State Department, the initiative seeks to reduce coercive dependencies, protect materials and capabilities foundational to artificial intelligence (AI), and ensure that aligned nations can develop and deploy transformative technologies at scale.
Notably, India is excluded, while all other QUAD countries like Japan, Australia are part of the initiative. (File) The Congress party Saturday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi over India’s exclusion from the United States-led strategic initiative, Pax Silica, citing the ‘sharp downturn’ in his relations with US President Donald Trump.
The party termed it a missed opportunity, especially as it comes a day after PM Modi enthusiastically shared on social media details of a phone call with his ‘once-upon-a-time good friend and a recipient of many hugs in Ahmedabad, Houston, and Washington DC.’
Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh highlighted the issue on X, stating that it would have been to India’s advantage to be part of the group. He wrote: “According to some news reports, the US has excluded India from a nine-nation initiative it has launched to reduce Chinese control over high-tech supply chains. The agreement is called Pax Silica, clearly as a counter to Pax Sinica. The nations included (for now) are the US, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and Australia.”
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