India as Friday Pax joined the silicaa US-led strategic alliance focused on securing AI and tech supply chains, Secretary of State Marco Rubio will visit India “very soon, within months”, US Ambassador Sergio Gore said.
It signals a recent warming of relations between the two countries after months of strained relations over the Trump administration’s tariffs on India.
Gore also said India-US trade agreement Ready to ink soon. Asked about the quad grouping, he said, “The quad is very important. The first meeting Secretary Rubio has with the quad. And that sends a message to the world. He hasn’t met with anybody else. It’s the quad. So we’re fully engaged. We’re in talks. I don’t have exact dates, but I don’t have exact dates for months. So it will be part of the quad along with many other initiatives.
Of President Donald Trump’s possible visit to India, Gore, a close friend of his, said, “In terms of the president’s visit, the prime minister invited him, no announcements for you soon, the president liked his visit to India. When he nominated me to be ambassador here, one of the things he said was looking at the history and culture of India. It doesn’t match, so I’m sure he’ll come back here at some point.”
After An agreement was signed on Pax SilicaUS Undersecretary of Economic Affairs Jacob Helberg welcomed India to the coalition, flagging challenges arising from a “hugely over-centralized” supply chain for critical minerals and “economic coercion and threats of blackmail”. It was read as a thinly veiled reference to China, which has restricted the export of rare earth magnets, a key component in machinery from airplanes to refrigerators.
Gore said India’s entry would strengthen the coalition. “Strengthening approaches to US-India technology cooperation will power AI innovation and adoption in the coming years. We can share reliable AI technology with the world and especially with partners like India,” he said.
“And critically, India brings strength. Peace does not come from expecting adversaries to play fair. We all know they don’t. Peace comes from strength. India understands this. India understands strong borders,” he said.
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“India understands this part of the world. That strength, that sovereignty will surely extend Pax Silica. Because here’s the truth: Strength multiplies when it’s connected.”
The Pax Silica agreement was officially signed at a ceremony at the AI Impact Summit. It was attended by Union Electronics and Information Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnav, Secretary S Krishnan, Helberg, Gore and US Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios.
On how responsibilities would be shared under Pax Silica and whether it could provide an alternative front to secure critical minerals, Helberg said the initiative would not only be limited to government-to-government cooperation but also enable private sector partnerships.
“So in terms of shared responsibility, what makes Pax Silica effective is that it’s not just a G2G platform, but also a platform that allows businesses to actually form partnerships, private sector to private sector. Part of the spirit of the Trump administration is that we trust industry and we trust markets,” he said.
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Asked about India importing oil from Venezuela, Gore said the talks were still ongoing and details were yet to be made public. He said that there are active discussions on this issue and discussions are being held with the US Department of Energy and the Ministry of Energy of India.
Ministry of External Affairs, “India joins Pax Silica initiative by signing Pax Silica Declaration. India signs Joint Statement on ‘India-US AI Opportunity Partnership’ as a bilateral annex to the Declaration.”
“Minister Vaishnav highlighted the strong potential for India and the United States to collaborate on supply chain security and emphasized that collaboration under Pax Silica will deepen engagement on critical technologies and supply chain renewal under the India-US Comprehensive Global Strategic Partnership,” it said.
Pax Silica seeks to build secure, resilient and innovation-driven supply chains for technologies that will underpin the AI era, particularly silicon and critical minerals that underpin semiconductors, advanced computing and other high-technology systems, MEA said.
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Pax Silica Strategic Initiative, Seen as a counter to China’s stranglehold on the global manufacturing supply chain, it will on December 12, 2025 “reduce forced dependencies” and build a “secure, prosperous and innovation-driven silicon supply chain” – from criticalducts to semiconductors to advanced minerals and energy to AI infrastructure and logistics.
