In February, U.S. undersea cable company SubCom LLC began laying a cable to the seafloor to send data from Asia via Africa and the Middle East to Europe. It will connect many countries from Singapore to France, crossing three seas and the Indian Ocean along the way. Construction is scheduled to be completed in 2025.
As the paper put it, it was a project that “escaped the Chinese fingers.” The Singapore-to-France cable would become China’s largest project for HMN Tech, expanding the global reach of three Chinese telecommunications companies looking to invest in it.
Concerned about the possibility of Chinese espionage, however, the US government successfully campaigned to hand over the original contract to SubCom. This is one of at least six private submarine cable deals in the Asia-Pacific region in the past four years where the US government has either intervened to prevent HMN Tech from winning the business or forced the US and China to reroute cables that would directly connect them. . .
Source: Ferra
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