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taiwan accused china of deliberately damaging the undersea cable linking the island to the united states, cutting a primary telecommunications path. separately, russia showed an electronic warfare system aimed at overwhelming starlink ground antennas with radio-frequency noise rather than harming the satellites — two different ways of severing connectivity without destroying hardware.

east asian and eastern european defence reporting

#undersea-cable#starlink#electronic-warfare#connectivity

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taiwan accused china of deliberately damaging the undersea cable linking the island to the united states, and separate analysis framed undersea cables as a rising front in us-china competition. cutting a transpacific data link is a physical act with strategic reach, and attribution here is taiwan's claim rather than established fact. 94%
russia deployed a new electronic warfare system, volna kupol garant, designed to disrupt starlink by targeting the satellites themselves rather than ground terminals. at the same time a firm called endeavor optical networks is pitching laser satellite links for intercontinental data transfer explicitly as an alternative to undersea cables after severings in the red sea, baltic and taiwan strait. pressure is moving upward: the contested layer is shifting from seabed to orbit. 92%
documents point to a joint russian-chinese effort to build weapons specifically aimed at disabling or destroying the starlink satellite network via malware and jamming, with russia trading battlefield experience for chinese technology. separately, a russia- and china-linked shadow fleet is suspected of damaging subsea cables using ais blackouts and false flags. both target the physical backbone of global connectivity. 92%
taiwanese prosecutors charged the captain of the vessel hong tai 58 with deliberately severing an undersea cable by dropping anchor — the first time taiwan has criminally charged anyone for intentional cable sabotage. separately, fibre-sensing technology is turning the same cables into passive sensors able to detect vessel movement and seabed conditions. the wires that carry the world's data are becoming both a target and a surveillance instrument at once. 92%
a 200-foot chinese-flagged research vessel was observed hovering over the pacific light cable network — the 8,000-mile line linking taiwan, the united states and the philippines — until taiwan's coast guard told it to change course. this is the same cable that was rerouted away from hong kong years ago because of us surveillance concerns. a stationary ship above a specific known-sensitive fiber is a physical-layer behavior, not a shipping one. 91%
the c-lion1 fiber line between finland and germany was severed inside sweden's economic zone near gotland, with authorities examining sabotage. separately a chinese vessel was observed holding position directly above the undersea cable linking the united states and taiwan. two cable events on opposite sides of the world in the same window, both in contested water, both involving surface vessels rather than accident. 91%

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E160· 30 JUL 2026

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