Category: undersea cables

House Advances Bill Calling for Strategy to Defend, Retain Control of Subsea Cables

March 27, 2023
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Among the challenges presented by the decade-long military modernization and expansion of China’s ruling Communist Party (CCP) is a “robust space program” potentially targeting more than 9,000 American-owned satellites orbiting the Earth. Space will be a battleground, Pentagon officials have repeatedly warned in Congressional hearings since February regarding President Joe Biden’s $863 billion Fiscal Year 2024…

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Russians More Likely to Tap Cables Than Cut Them: UK Defence Analyst

October 28, 2022
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A British defence analyst says the recent damage to an undersea telecommunications cable off the coast of Scotland is unlikely to have been carried out by the Russians, who are more likely to be fitting devices that would extract information. Extra police officers were sent to the Shetland islands after an undersea telecommunications cable was damaged…

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UK’s Shetland Cut Off From World After 2 Undersea Cables Damaged in ‘Very Rare’ Incident

October 20, 2022
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Thousands of residents on Britain’s Shetland Islands are without phone and internet services after two undersea telecommunications cables were damaged just days apart, a situation that has been described as “very rare.” Residents on the remote Scottish archipelago have not been able to access telecommunication services since the early hours of Oct. 20 due to…

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Chinese Police Arm in NYC: Spying on Dissenters?

October 11, 2022
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A Chinese police post is in the center of New York City. Lawmakers push back. China’s “zero COVID-19” policy has been described as “sustainable” by the nation’s state mouthpiece. Is the policy here to stay? And that same policy is getting put to the test. Highly contagious sub-variants of Omicron are now appearing across China….

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UK Defence Chief: Russia Cutting Underwater Cables Could Be an Act of War

January 8, 2022
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The head of the UK’s armed forces has warned that Russian submarine activity is threatening underwater cables that are crucial to communication systems around the world. Admiral Sir Tony Radakin said undersea cables that transmit internet data are “the world’s real information system,” and added that any attempt to damage them could be considered an…

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