A comprehensive analysis by business media has found that the US is trying to kick China out of the world undersea internet cable infrastructure by limiting Chinese companies' involvement.
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The campaign comes amid a spiraling technology-related trade war between the People’s Republic on one side and the US and its allies on the other, with both sides making references to national security, and Washington claiming ad nauseam that Beijing uses Chinese tech companies’ products to spy on Americans. China has denied such allegations.
Successive US governments have been actively working to limit Chinese companies’ involvement in the laying of underwater fiber optic cables connecting the world to the internet, a comprehensive analysis by business media has found.
The US strategy, which includes (but is not limited to) freezing Chinese companies out of undersea internet cable projects where US investment is involved, is reportedly being jus...