During the Biden administration, there was extensive discussion of the Great Reset. The avowed aim of the Great Reset — also known as Agenda 21, Agenda 2030, or Sustainable Development — was to foster public-private cooperation to solve the world’s most pressing challenges: environmental protection, global health, and bridging the gap between developed and developing nations and groups.
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But its real purpose was to create a globalist, authoritarian regime in which elites controlled the world through their influence over governments and world organizations. This would be achieved through public-private partnerships, aided by a technocracy that dictated every aspect of human life and behavior. AI, chip implants, and granular tracking would create a , where authoritarianism would thrive and democracy would die away.
So, what happened to this brainchild of Klaus Schwab and his cohorts at the World Economic Forum (WEF), which Glenn Beck exposed as a dystopian system that spells the end of free market capitalism and imposes severe limits on individual freedom and private ownership? Was it banished to the dustbin of history when President Donald Trump took office? Recent developments suggest it has shapeshifted and is proceeding at breakneck speed under the guise of a program to promote technological advancements and global trade agreements.
In December 2025, the U.S. State Department announced Pax Silica, a U.S.-led global initiative to secure supply chains for advanced technologies, including semiconductors, artificial intelligence, and critical minerals, and to counter China’s monopoly on rare earth minerals and AI infrastructure. Echoing Pax Americana and the Iron Curtain of the 20th century, Pax Silica is a coalition of countries united in building an economic fortress around critical technologies — a silicon Iron Curtain — to ensure geostrategic dominance.
The coalition is based on contributions to the AI ecosystem rather than on geographic location:
- As its leader, the U.S. will provide capital and cloud services from remote data centers.
- Japan, serving as the industrial anchor, will provide the chemicals and machinery for chip manufacturing.
- South Korea, the global hub for High Bandwidth Memory (HBM), will supply the memory stacks needed for the high-speed computing that powers AI.
- Australia, with the world’s largest reserves of lithium, cobalt, tungsten, and copper, will serve as the quarry of critical minerals.
- Israeli expertise will secure and fortify the technological ecosystem.
- India will provide software to enable AI capabilities and labor to manufacture the chips.
- The Netherlands, the U.K., and Singapore will provide additional technologies.
- Qatar and the UAE have joined to provide capital and energy.
- Taiwan, which produces 95% of the world’s semiconductors, has been designated a guest to avoid conflict with China.
While it may seem like a solid front against Chinese global dominance, Pax Silica will ultimately result in the governance of global commerce by AI and other technologies rather than by sovereign states and democratically deliberating electorates. In short, it advances the aims of the Great Reset through other means. Patrick Wood, a leading technology expert, views Pax Silica as “a global operating system that manages all aspects of life without independent human input.” He also describes it as a vehicle for converting “independent citizens into managed tenants.”
It is not inconceivable that Chinese-style monitoring and social credit systems will soon emerge in democracies, which will no longer remain free. This will be achieved through smartphone-based tracking, human ‘chipping’ via the brain-computer interface developed by Elon Musk’s Neuralink, and AI-based controls that shape human thought and action through reward-and-punishment cycles tied to payments and digital assets.
This dystopia is closer than you think. To ensure the smooth domestic implementation of Pax Silica, directives and laws have been enacted or are in development. On his first full day in office, Trump, along with Larry Ellison of Oracle, Masayoshi Son of Softbank, and Sam Altman of OpenAI, announced a $500 billion private-sector initiative for AI infrastructure. Known as Project Stargate, the initiative will build vast data centers and power generation facilities across the U.S.
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What is alarming, though, is that the project will be led by tech giants whose executives are active participants in the WEF and are in tune with its dangerous worldview — that ordinary people no longer matter and need not have a say, because a world as complex as ours will survive only if it is run by intellectual elites and their paymasters. Digital IDs, chipping (which will purportedly be voluntary), central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), asset tokenization, and social credit systems — these are all part of the ecosystem of control taking shape and long advocated by the WEF.
In fact, Ellison envisions an AI-controlled world of round-the-clock surveillance of everyone, everywhere, through interconnected cameras, bodycams, dashcams, and security systems, in which “citizens will be on their best behavior.”
A few days after announcing Project Stargate, Trump signed Executive Order 14179 (titled Removing Barriers to American Leadership in AI), which promotes “permissionless innovation” in the tech sector by removing regulatory and other barriers. Federal officials have been directed to develop a comprehensive AI Action Plan and to expedite the development of AI data centers.
However, what will perhaps hasten the arrival of dystopian control the most are two recent pieces of legislation — the Genius Act and the Clarity Act — that address all forms of electronic currency, including cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, CBDCs, and a new type of cryptocurrency called stablecoins (pegged to stable reserves like cash or gold, whose use can be dictated by issuers to be subject to certain terms and conditions). Beyond challenging monetary sovereignty, they will allow tech firms, AI-powered platforms, and autonomous organizations to build alternative value systems and control people’s behavior by dictating how many tokens they may earn or use — or even lose — for performing certain behaviors.
The Genius (Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins) Act of July 2025 established rules for stablecoins. Critics argue that integrating stablecoins into traditional banking will pave the way for a programmable monetary system that can be weaponized to undermine financial stability, enforce compliance, and eliminate monetary sovereignty by denying access to funds. A centralized surveillance grid could follow, along with authoritarian financial control. Last November, the Circle Internet Group, the issuer of the USDC stablecoin, prohibited users from purchasing firearms — an ideology-driven enforcement action unthinkable with fiat currency.
The Clarity Act (Digital Asset Market Clarity Act) of 2025 for cryptocurrency and seeks to define who controls the future of digital finance — stablecoins, tokenized assets, and AI-driven financial agents — in the U.S. It has cleared the Senate Banking Committee but faces opposition from the banking industry, which is worried that cryptocurrency and stablecoins will compete with money people keep in insured bank accounts, causing bank deposits to dwindle and making less money available for loans. Law enforcers say the act does not do enough to prevent illegal transactions, and labor groups are afraid that cryptocurrencies will jeopardize financial stability, especially in old age, by devaluing retirement funds and pensions.
These systems of top-down control — effected through the global Pax Silica initiative, the digitization of assets, and the proliferation of AI for surveillance — are meant to achieve the very goals the Great Reset set out to attain. So, the foundations for an authoritarian world government are already being laid, and local government and individual freedom are gradually being eroded.
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The Great Reset hasn’t gone away. It has simply taken the form of Pax Silica.
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