The State Department started considering the possibility of Chinese repair ships sabotaging undersea cables after SB Submarine Systems, a state-owned Chinese company that fixes underwater cables, withheld information about the location of their ships.
A group of Wall Street Journal reporters were briefed by State Department representatives about the growing possibility that communications cables beneath the ocean could be used for spying.
When SB Submarine Systems, a state-owned Chinese company that fixes underwater cables, mysteriously and frequently withheld the location information of its ship from radio and satellite tracking systems, the officials were alarmed. The ship's concealment of its position, according to them, "defied easy explanation."
Nearly three months have passed since "damaged" underwater telecommunications cables connecting Europe and Asia between Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and Djibouti, East Africa, were discovered in the Red Sea. This warning concerning ...
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