U.S. Hosts Pax Silica Summit on AI Supply Chain Security, With Taiwan Attending

Pax Silica is a U.S.-led economic security framework spanning critical minerals, energy, advanced manufacturing, semiconductors and AI infrastructure. Taiwan’s dominant role in advanced chip fabrication makes it central to Washington’s push for trusted and resilient technology supply chains. The partnership matters because bottlenecks or geopolitical disruption in Taiwan could reverberate across data centers, model developers and hardware makers worldwide, turning semiconductor capacity and related inputs into strategic concerns rather than purely commercial ones.

U.S. Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs Jacob Helberg met American Institute in Taiwan Director Raymond Greene and said the two sides were deepening cooperation through Pax Silica to secure supply chains underpinning the global AI boom. The officials disclosed no new investment amount, project or implementation timetable. The meeting builds on a joint statement signed on Jan. 27, 2026, when U.S. and Taiwan representatives endorsed the declaration’s principles and expanded talks on AI supply-chain security, trusted digital infrastructure, critical minerals and uncrewed aircraft component certification.