From Pax Silica to Hypergravity in Kazakhstan

Central Asia’s place in the new technological era

By Timur Serikuly, The Diplomat

Photo from Latvian Institute of Foreign Affairs

Increasingly, the main venues of geopolitical competition revolve around semiconductor supply chains, computing power, laboratories, and scientific infrastructure. The United States is forming a technological alliance, Pax Silica; China in parallel has launched the world’s mos…