The United States is drafting diplomatic correspondence urging allied nations to explicitly align with Washington rather than Beijing in the global artificial intelligence technology race.

According to Reuters, the United States is drafting a letter to partner countries urging them to choose a side in the artificial intelligence standoff between Washington and Beijing. A State Department draft reviewed by the news agency warns, “To be part of everything is to be part of nothing.” Countries that join China’s AI initiative would be shut out of the US-led Pax Silica coalition.

Washington launched the initiative last year to secure supply chains for AI models, semiconductors, and critical minerals. About two dozen countries, along with the European Union, have signed on. Kazakhstan is so far the only known country to belong to both the US coalition and China’s competing framework. It holds large reserves of critical minerals that matter for high-tech and AI supply chains.

In July, Chinese President Xi Jinping launched the rival World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization, which promotes China’s open-weight AI models as an alternative to US systems from OpenAI and Anthropic. China’s embassy in Washington pushed back on the US plans, saying such moves would slow global AI progress and serve no one’s interests.