Jacob Helberg
U.S. Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs and architect of the Pax Silica economic security strategy.
“Pax Silica is not a diplomatic talking shop — it is being built as a replicable, hub-based industrial platform system starting with a 4,000-acre 'economic security zone' in the Philippines, structured under State Department diplomatic property authority”
Source→“We made this arrangement with them where they are granting us 4,000 acres, which is obviously very substantial. It's a third of the size of Manhattan to do a very large industrial build out.”
Source→“Jacob Helberg... Former policy advisor at Google. Mentioned as the primary driver of a novel economic security strategy.”
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