US warns Pacific islands of Chinese bid for undersea cable project, say sources
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Undersea cables, which have far greater data capacity than satellites, is a sensitive area of diplomacy in the Pacific
The United States has warned Pacific island nations about security threats posed by a Chinese company’s cut-price bid to build an undersea internet cable, two sources told Reuters, part of an international development project in the region.
Huawei Marine, which was recently divested from Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and is now majority-owned by another Chinese firm, submitted bids along with French-headquartered Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN), part of Finland’s Nokia, and Japan s NEC, for the $72.6-million project backed by the World Bank and Asian Development Bank (ADB), the sources with direct knowledge of the project details said.
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Washington sent a diplomatic note to the FSM in July expressing its strategic concerns about the project, as Huawei Marine and other Chinese companies must cooperate with Beijing’s intelligence and security services, the sources said.
That note followed an earlier warning to Micronesia and development agencies from the government of Nauru, an ally of Taiwan, which China considers a renegade province, about Huawei Marine’s participation in the project, the sources said.
The FSM government told Reuters in a statement that it is in talks with bilateral partners in the project, “some of whom have addressed the need to ensure that the cable does not endanger regional security by opening or not opening cybersecurity-related gaps. to seal. “