Maintenance in progress

chinese military-affiliated scientists published analysis arguing that undersea cables carrying roughly 99% of global data are now cheaply attackable by unmanned craft and constitute a new domain of great-power competition, while a shanghai maritime university professor separately urged beijing to write a law for grey-zone cable warfare. simultaneously china unicom completed a hong kong–cambodia cable, and us telecom operators logged 18,327 criminal attacks on physical lines in 2025, up 59%. the same layer is being theorized as a battlefield and cut as a nuisance in the same week.

chinese academic/military publications; us telecom industry data