Geopolitics
The Pax Silica Gambit: A Neo-Colonial Trap Dressed as Technological Partnership
In a single day, Bangladesh found itself being courted by two rival technological alliances, the U.S.-led Pax Silica and the China-backed WAICO, presenting a critical strategic choice. This brazen geopolitical tug-of-war epitomizes the West's neo-colonial 'with-us-or-against-us' coercion, forcing Global South nations like Bangladesh into a false binary that exploits their vulnerabilities and threatens their hard-won autonomy.