The silicon shackle: Why Pax Silica cannot become India’s digital zamindari

As Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri concludes his high-level deliberations with US Under Secretary Jacob Helberg in Washington this week, the official communiqué reads like a triumph of “Managed Interdependence.” India’s deepening role in Pax Silica—the US-led techno-security alliance formalized in February 2026—is being framed as the ultimate insurance policy against Chinese supply-chain coercion. For those tracking structural shifts in global power, the meeting signals something far more consequential: the formalization of an Algorithmic Monroe Doctrine.