The protection of undersea internet cables is a matter of national security.
US like always is missing the point. The real story should be that redundancy is key. Even with those cables cut, there was no noticeable interruption in internet services.
Yeah but have you considered that redundancy costs money that could be going to shareholders?
Never crossed my mind. Time to start a new business venture, thanks for the idea.
Did you even read the headline? Redundancy isn’t the issue, the Chinese is. If we can just make one super-American aluminum cable, it’ll last forever!
Why would China cut there connection to the US? That wouldn’t make sense.
It says right there in the headline that their “proposals include restricting Chinese companies from building cable components.” If I know anything about reading headlines and ignoring the content of the article, this means the Chinese that cables=bad. But if the cable is built in the US of A, then it’ll be super high-quality. We could probably build it from fettuccini!
But on a more serious note, this just sounds like grandstanding. Most technology, even bespoke—especially bespoke—gets manufactured in multiple companies. I’m not sure it’ll even be possible to preclude China from the process of making cables for us, nor do I fully understand why you’d want to. There are other ways to punish a country than hurting your own technology.
To answer your question: they’d cut it to cause harm and chaos here. But physically dragging an anchor over cables as they’ve been doing is different than building components. Even if they built faulty components, I’d imagine they’d fail a test before being sent to the bottom of the ocean.
Good. It shouldn’t be so simple to completely isolate and cripple a country.
They could also lay down more cables for redundancy. Expensive but it would prove much more safe. It would be best if they were owned by two separate companies using totally different stuff.
The good new right now is that China would lose more than the US would if a cable got cut.
