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The new threat to the undersea cables keeping our internet going
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- bell-cot 2y ago> A new Chinese tool capable of cutting the most fortified undersea data cable... > Hong Kong and China-registered ships also ruptured cables last year with their anchors. > The US has pressured countries not to use a Chinese cable-laying company... > ...the world's fleet of deep-sea cable repair ships is small - many of them Chinese. Bluntly put, it sounds like China and Russia have operational, at-scale capabilities. Vs. Western nations only have people talking. About doing something or other. Eventually. To paraphrase Rumsfeld - your opponent goes to war against you with the forces that he does have. And promptly wins, because you have only wishes.