Maintenance in progress

an internet cable was cut off the western australian coast with a chinese-flagged vessel operating in the area, and in the same window taiwan's hanko 42 military exercise included, for the first time, a simulated mobile network slowdown and a ground unit repairing fiber-optic cable under enemy fire. two ends of the same nervous system moved together: one real cut in the southern ocean, one rehearsal for cuts in the taiwan strait. attribution in the australian case is a claim about a vessel's presence, not a demonstrated act.

pacific maritime and taiwanese defence exercise reporting