This picture, launched by South Korea’s international ministry, reveals senior officers from South Korea, the US, Japan and different nations attending the Pax Silica summit in Washington on Dec. 12, 2025. Yonhap
WASHINGTON — The United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Wednesday signed a doc to take part in a rising U.S.-led coalition for provide chain cooperation on synthetic intelligence (AI), essential minerals and different areas, becoming a member of South Korea and 7 different signatories to the group.
The State Division mentioned that Below Secretary of State for Financial Affairs Jacob Helberg and UAE Minister of State Saeed Bin Mubarak Al Hajeri signed the Center East nation’s accession to Pax Silica, an financial safety initiative launched final month, as Washington seeks to counter China’s rising heft in superior applied sciences.
India plans to hitch as a signatory to the coalition subsequent month, in accordance with the division.
The coalition now consists of 9 members: South Korea, the US, Australia, Israel, Japan, Qatar, Singapore, Britain and the UAE.
“America and the United Arab Emirates affirmed their dedication to collectively pursue multilayered partnerships that strengthen provide chain safety, deal with coercive dependencies and single factors of failure, and advance the adoption of trusted expertise ecosystems,” the division mentioned in a media notice.
“They are going to discover alternatives to companion on flagship tasks throughout the worldwide expertise stack, together with connectivity and edge infrastructure corresponding to 6G; compute and information facilities; superior manufacturing; logistics; mineral refining and processing; and vitality.”
The grouping comes as U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is pushing to boost America’s world “AI dominance,” guarantee steady provide chains for essential minerals and counter China’s management over these strategically important sources, amid an intensifying rivalry between the 2 superpowers.
Pax Silica attracts from the Latin “pax”, that means peace, stability and long-term prosperity, whereas silica refers back to the compound refined into silicon, a chemical ingredient key to the pc chips that allow synthetic intelligence, in accordance with the State Division.
