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• @MattHodges@mastodon.social Matt Hodges on mastodon

  “While the State Department and its partners have helped to prevent China from obtaining new subsea contracts in foreign places of U.S. strategic interest, Team Telecom has focused on a purely domestic concern …

• @joereuters Joe Brock on x

  Washington, fretting about Beijing's spies, has forced Chinese companies off international subsea cable contracts, and blocked cables between the U.S. and Hong Kong, scuppering the plans of Google, Meta and Amazon. @Reuters got inside the room details on these campaigns

• @chinabeigebook @chinabeigebook on x

  “Potential for undersea cables to be drawn into a conflict bt #China & #Taiwan became real last month when 2 cables were cut connecting Taiwan w/its Matsu islands, near the 🇨🇳 coast...Islands' 14K residents were disconnected from the internet” https://www.reuters.com/...

• @reuters @reuters on x

  There are increasing concerns about subsea cables being targets for espionage and sabotage. A fellow at the Cyber Statecraft Initiative of the Atlantic Council, called subsea cables ‘a surveillance gold mine’ for intelligence agencies https://www.reuters.com/... https://twitter.c…

• @jojjeols Jojje Olsson on x

  “Undersea cables are central to U.S.-China technology competition. Across the globe, there are more than 400 cables running along the seafloor, carrying over 95% of all international internet traffic”. https://www.reuters.com/... @frick

• @tmclaughlin3 Timothy McLaughlin on x

  “Since 2020, the team has been instrumental in the cancellation of four cables whose backers had wanted to link the United States with Hong Kong, Devin DeBacker, a DOJ official and senior member of Team Telecom, told Reuters in an interview.” https://www.reuters.com/...

• @thooleramawn James Mccarty Yeager on x

  soft power in the service of imperialism.... on both sides. https://www.reuters.com/...

• @repsistance @repsistance on x

  Decentralized Internet infrastructures are an illusion until we decentralize the underlying layer; the Internet itself. #DecentralizeITall #MeshNetworks https://www.reuters.com/...

• @aaronbateman22 Aaron Bateman on x

  Good article on competition between US and China over undersea cables. Though this subject has been getting more attention only recently, geopolitical tension over undersea cable infrastructure goes back to the 19th century. https://www.reuters.com/...

• @jdeanscs @jdeanscs on x

  If we're talking about “security” the conversation must always include subsea data communications cables that hold a goldmine of valuable information. Learn More Here https://www.reuters.com/... #subsea #data #information https://twitter.com/...

• @wondersmith_rae @wondersmith_rae on x

  “When we talk about U.S.-China tech competition, when we talk about espionage and the capture of data, submarine cables are involved in every aspect of those rising geopolitical tensions” https://www.reuters.com/...

• @reuters @reuters on x

  The contract for a US company to build an advanced undersea fiber-optic cable from Singapore to France is among recent cable deals in the Asia-Pacific region where the US government intervened to wrest that business from a Chinese firm https://www.reuters.com/... https://twitter.…

• @gabidolceb Gabriella Dolce-Bengtsson on x

  “The U.S. cable effort has been anchored by a three-year-old interagency task force informally known as Team Telecom..” https://www.reuters.com/...

• @bonnieglaser @bonnieglaser on x

  Subsea cables, which carry the world's data, are now central to the U.S.-China tech war. Washington, fearful of Beijing's spies, has thwarted Chinese projects abroad and choked Big Tech's cable routes to Hong Kong. Fantastic investigative reporting. https://www.reuters.com/...

• @joereuters Joe Brock on x

  I've been investigating a hidden corner of the US-China tech war: undersea cables. Washington and Beijing are secretly battling to control this vast network, which carries nearly all the world's data, from phone calls to military secrets. Story 👇🧵 https://www.reuters.com/...