# Jacob Helberg Ideology Map of [[Jacob Helberg]]'s belief system — **tech statecraft as the defining conflict of the era**, the US–China "wires of war." The running developments live on the canonical [[Jacob Helberg]] page and in [[Jacob Helberg News Log]]. > Helberg is the roster's **tech-diplomacy hawk**: where [[Eric Schmidt Ideology]] frames AI as national destiny, Helberg frames the *internet and supply chain itself* as the battlefield between democratic and authoritarian tech stacks. ## The load-bearing beliefs | Belief | Short form | Source | |---|---|---| | The wires are the war | The internet is a geopolitical battleground between democratic and authoritarian tech stacks | *[[The Wires of War]]* (2021) | | Tech decoupling from China | The US must build a trusted, China-free supply chain | [[Tech Decoupling]]; US–China Commission | | Trusted-partner blocs | Align chips/AI/critical infrastructure among allies | [[Pax Silica]] | | Silicon Valley ↔ Washington fusion | The Valley and the state must merge on defense/AI/China | [[Hill and Valley Forum]] | | Economic security = national security | Trade, tariffs, and supply chains are security instruments | State Dept economic-affairs portfolio | ## The Wires of War thesis Helberg's 2021 book *[[The Wires of War]]* framed the US–China contest as a "gray war" fought over the internet's infrastructure and information layer — democratic vs. authoritarian tech stacks. It is the intellectual foundation for everything he now does in government: the argument that **technology supply chains are the primary theater of great-power competition**. ## Pax Silica — the doctrine operationalized As Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs under [[Marco Rubio]], Helberg's flagship is [[Pax Silica]] — a multilateral framework to build a US-aligned semiconductor, AI, and critical-infrastructure supply chain among trusted partners. It is the Wires-of-War thesis turned into statecraft: [[Tech Decoupling]] from China plus bloc-building among allies. ## The fusion project The [[Hill and Valley Forum]] (co-founded with [[Delian Asparouhov]] and Christian Garrett) is the ideology as *institution*: a standing venue to fuse Silicon Valley capital and talent with Washington policy on defense, AI, and China. It is the connective tissue between Helberg's [[Palantir]]/[[Alex Karp]] origins and his State Department role. ## See Also - [[Jacob Helberg]] — canonical biography - [[The Wires of War]] · [[Pax Silica]] · [[Tech Decoupling]] - [[Hill and Valley Forum]] - [[Eric Schmidt Ideology]] — the national-destiny counterpart - [[Jacob Helberg Dossier]]