The Tangled Geopolitics of Undersea Cables
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If you're an avid reader of The Daily Upside (and why wouldn't you be?) you might have noticed that the US and China have been attempting some kind of detente. The making-up process has been extremely piecemeal, and on certain topics -- the most high-profile being semiconductors -- the two sides continue to needle each other.
But the US and China have been waging another, potentially more intractable war deep at the bottom of the ocean. The US has been quietly trying to push China out of the ever-more-sprawling infrastructure of subsea internet cables, the physical infrastructure that transports unimaginable quantities of data between continents.
Source Fool.com
