The United States and the Philippines will build a 4,000-acre (1,620 hectares) industrial hub after Manila joined a Washington-led initiative to secure AI and semiconductor supply chains, the U.S. State Department said in a statement.
The Philippines becomes the 13th country to join Pax Silica, a program seeking to safeguard the full technology supply chain, including critical minerals, advanced manufacturing, computing and data infrastructure.
The intiative is a key pillar of the Trump administration’s economic statecraft strategy aimed at reducingits dependence on rival nations and strengthen cooperation among allied partners.
Other signatories include Australia, Finland, India, Qatar, South Korea and Singapore.
Philippines, US to build industrial hub to strengthen supply chain security
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