Pakistan, April 19 -- The post-Cold War euphoria that once heralded a borderless, interconnected, and mutually dependent world has now given way to an unsettling new order-one defined not by nuclear arms, but by silicon chips, algorithmic influence, and invisible wars fought across cyberspace. As tensions simmer between traditional powers and new geopolitical players, a global tech race is underway that is rapidly reshaping diplomacy, warfare, economics, and ideology. This is not a Cold War in the conventional sense. It is stealthier, faster, and far more embedded in civilian life. It's a war where the weapons are lines of code and nanometer chips, and the battlefields are cloud servers and data centers.

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