{"id":61594,"date":"2025-12-13T19:10:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T13:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/?p=61594"},"modified":"2025-12-15T15:08:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T09:38:16","slug":"india-out-of-pax-silica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/13-12-2025\/india-out-of-pax-silica","title":{"rendered":"India out of Pax Silica Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS2\/IR, GS3\/Economy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Context<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>India has been excluded from the <strong>US-led Pax Silica initiative, <\/strong>a new US critical mineral diversification plan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>About<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Pax Silica<\/strong> is a <strong>US-led strategic initiative<\/strong> to build a secure, prosperous, and innovation-driven silicon supply chain from critical minerals.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The inaugural Pax Silica Summit convenes counterparts from:<\/strong> Japan, Republic of Korea, Singapore, the Netherlands, The United Kingdom, Israel, United Arab Emirates, and Australia.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Together, these countries are home to the most important companies and investors powering the global AI supply chain.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Its objective<\/strong> is 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.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Countries will partner<\/strong> on securing strategic stacks of the global technology supply chain, including, but not limited to, software applications and platforms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What are Critical Minerals?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Critical minerals are elements that are the <strong>building blocks of essential modern-day technologies,<\/strong> and are at risk of supply chain disruptions.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The lack of availability of these minerals or the concentration of extraction or processing in a few geographical locations could potentially lead to \u201c<strong>supply chain vulnerabilities and even disruption of supplies\u201d.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img data-dominant-color=\"d2d7d5\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"559\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-88-1024x559.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"not-transparent wp-image-61595\" style=\"--dominant-color: #d2d7d5; aspect-ratio:1.8319362093641383;width:463px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-88-1024x559.png 1024w, https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-88-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-88-768x419.png 768w, https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-88-1536x838.png 1536w, https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-88.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>List of Critical Minerals<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Different countries have their own unique lists <\/strong>of critical minerals based on their specific circumstances and priorities.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>A total of 30 minerals were found to be most critical for India<\/strong>: Antimony, Beryllium, Bismuth, Cobalt, Copper, Gallium, Germanium, Graphite, Hafnium, Indium, Lithium, Molybdenum, Niobium, Nickel, PGE, Phosphorous, Potash, REE, Rhenium, Silicon, Strontium, Tantalum, Tellurium, Tin, Titanium, Tungsten, Vanadium, Zirconium, Selenium and Cadmium.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/business\/india-left-out-of-new-us-critical-mineral-plan-pax-silica-10416588\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>IE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<li class=\"ms-5\">India has been excluded from the US-led Pax Silica initiative, a new US critical mineral diversification plan.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>About<\/strong><\/p>\n<li class=\"ms-5\">Pax Silica is a US-led strategic initiative to build a secure, prosperous, and innovation-driven silicon supply chain from critical minerals.<\/li>\n<li class=\"ms-5\">The inaugural Pax Silica Summit convenes counterparts from: Japan, Republic of Korea, Singapore, the Netherlands, The United Kingdom, Israel, United Arab Emirates, and Australia.<\/li>\n<li class=\"ms-5\">Together, these countries are home to the most important companies and investors powering the global AI supply chain.<\/li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/13-12-2025\/india-out-of-pax-silica\" class=\"btn btn-primary btn-sm float-end\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61594"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61598,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61594\/revisions\/61598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}