Answer: United States of America
Notes: India has been excluded from the new United States–led critical mineral diversification plan called Pax Silica. Pax Silica is a strategic initiative led by the United States to build a secure, resilient, and innovation-driven silicon supply chain. The initiative covers the full chain from critical minerals and energy inputs to advanced manufacturing, semiconductors, artificial intelligence infrastructure, and logistics. Its main objective is to reduce strategic dependencies and enable like-minded countries to develop and deploy advanced technologies at scale.
