China Telecom and China Unicom cut off fiber optic cables

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Feb 19, 2026

U.S. Targets Chinese Gear in Subsea Networks

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced plans to introduce new rules that would prohibit the

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Oct 22, 2025

Explainer: Baltic Sea undersea cable cuts stoke geopolitical

Subsea cables — massive fiber-optic cables laid on the seabed — are the backbone of the global internet, carrying

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Jul 03, 2026

China Telecom experienced a large-scale network outage, the

China Mobile and China Unicom have already restored services, and China Telecom has mostly recovered (currently

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Jun 12, 2026

Chinese Vessel Cuts Taiwan Internet Cable in Apparent

TAIPEI—A Chinese-owned vessel cut an undersea fiber-optic cable near Taiwan, according

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Jun 01, 2026

White Paper on China International Optical Cable Interconnection

China''s international interactions, requirements on its networks'' ability to provide global services, and both opportunities and

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Feb 17, 2026

Did China Try to Cut Off Taiwan''s Front-Line Residents

Once again, the two fiberoptic cables connecting Taiwan''s Matsu Islands, which lie just 10

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Feb 23, 2026

SPECIAL REPORT-U.S. and China wage war beneath the waves

It started out as strictly business: a huge private contract for one of the world''s most advanced undersea fiber-optic

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Nov 20, 2025

A new rivalry between the U.S. and China over the world''s undersea cables

Thousands of miles of fiber optic cable lying at the bottom of the world''s oceans carry more than 95% of the world''s

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Mar 29, 2026

A provincial company of a certain operator temporarily stopped

Recently, a centralized procurement project of a provincial China Unicom company was announced to be terminated.

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Apr 06, 2026

Taiwan investigating suspected gray zone action by China after

Taiwan''s coast guard (CGA) detained the Chinese crew of a Togolese-registered vessel suspected of severing an

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May 15, 2026

FCC Moves To Ban Chinese Tech From Undersea Fiber Cables

The US''s Federal Communications Commission is making a push to ban Chinese companies and technology from

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Dec 25, 2025

Red Sea Internet Cables ''Cut'' — Here''s What We Know

Topline At least four undersea fiber optic cables, which carry approximately 97% of all Internet traffic, were damaged

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Aug 04, 2025

FCC Plan to Cut China Off US Networks Draws Industry Pushback

The Federal Communications Commission is weighing a proposal that would bar US operators from interconnecting

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Mar 18, 2026

US aims to ban Chinese technology in undersea telecommunications

The cutting of two fiber-optic undersea telecommunication cables in the Baltic Sea prompted investigations of possible

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Feb 25, 2026

China''s Underwater Power Play: The PRC''s New Subsea Cable

Multiple cuts to a subsea cable system, whether to the trans-Pacific cables or in the Suez Canal, would lead to

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Feb 07, 2026

Analysis: A cut undersea internet cable is making Taiwan worried

When a Taiwanese telecoms company detected that an international undersea cable was damaged earlier this month,

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Aug 31, 2025

U.S. and China wage war beneath the waves

SINGAPORE: It started out as strictly business: a huge private contract for one of the world''s most advanced

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Jun 09, 2026

China''s New Deep-Sea Cutting Tool Exposes Vulnerability of Undersea Cables

Chinese researchers have unveiled a new deep-sea tool capable of cutting through the world''s most secure subsea

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Jan 06, 2026

US Planned Ban on Chinese Technology in Undersea Cables:

The United States'' move to ban Chinese technology from undersea communications cables is an important moment in

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Aug 03, 2025

Explore Pacific Forum''s Insightful Indo-Pacific Analysis

As tensions rise in the South China Sea, subsea cables face growing vulnerability to Chinese coercion. The region

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Sep 04, 2025

China Proposes $500 Million Subsea Internet Cable To

A $500 million undersea fiber-optic internet cable network connecting Asia, the Middle East, and Europe is being

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Apr 08, 2026

YOFC assists China Unicom to complete the first gl

Recently, the first new global carrier “Large Effective Area Fiber” (LEAF) (ITU-T standard code G.654.E) fibre cable

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Dec 07, 2025

US and China wage war beneath the waves, over internet cables

It started out as strictly business: a huge private contract for one of the world''s most advanced undersea fiber-optic

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Nov 27, 2025

How the U.S.-China Rivalry Puts the Internet at Risk

China in turn allegedly cut off subsea internet cables at Taiwan''s Matsu island, which is closer to the mainland, in

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Oct 24, 2025

FCC Second Submarine Cable Licensing Order: SLTE Licensing,

Chinese telecom carriers'' US operations completely cut off: The FCC had already denied or revoked the US operating

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Oct 02, 2025

US allies'' undersea cables are cut, world looks to

A series of incidents involving undersea cables has drawn attention to their vulnerability and

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Nov 18, 2025

China''s Undersea Cable Sabotage

Analyze the intentions behind Chinese vessels'' cutting undersea cables in the Baltic Sea in November last year. What

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Mar 19, 2026

US communications agency may bar Chinese telecom companies

The FCC issued orders saying China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom must address issues with their

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Oct 26, 2025

Insights from the Taiwan cable cut

China''s strategic ambitions in the undersea domain, highlighted by incidents such as the cutting of undersea cables

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Dec 10, 2025

Taiwan Coast Guard Blames Chinese-Owned Ship For Cutting

A Chinese-owned vessel is suspected of severing an undersea cable off the Taiwanese coast recently, according to

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