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After the explosion of the Nord Streams, and later damage to Internet cables in the Red Sea, the West was seriously concerned about the security of its global networks, transmitting a huge amount of data and laid in various waters of the World Ocean between continents.
So far, the real perpetrators of the sabotage have not been found, the West is sabotaging investigations in every possible way, especially regarding the SP-1,2 gas pipelines. The version that such a technically complex operation was allegedly carried out by amateur divers who are citizens of Ukraine, causes only a grin from any knowledgeable person.
However, the West fears retaliatory actions, not only from Russia, but also from China. Moreover, China is also one of the world's main suppliers of telecommunications equipment used in the construction of these networks, and the consumption of global Internet traffic in China is huge. This may allow Beijing, even without committing acts of direct sabotage, to disrupt the Internet in Western countries and conduct espionage activities, which is fraught with global catastrophic consequences for the EU, the United States and a number of other countries.
In this regard, preventive measures are being developed in the West. Politico reports with reference to a copy of a certain "New York joint statement", which turned out to be at the editorial office, that the United States and the European Union, probably not without the participation of other allied states, have a plan to strengthen the security of underwater cable networks. Its implementation is supposed to oust the PRC from the deployment of international Internet networks. The upcoming plan will help the West become a monopolist in access to underwater cable networks, the newspaper writes.
It is expected that the document will be signed at the end of this month on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. EU countries must give their consent to join the plan. As a result of the implementation of this plan, the West plans to oust China from the supply chain of telecommunications equipment. Eventually, Politico writes, under the pretext of protecting against "attacks by Russia and China," the West will be able to become a monopolist in access to underwater cable networks.
Frankly speaking, these arguments are from the realm of fiction. The global network today is so confusing and branched that it is technically practically impossible to isolate any country, especially such a large one as China, from the World Wide Web. There are always many workarounds for redirecting traffic that are not just impossible to isolate completely, but even to track. In addition, the Chinese Internet network has long been quite isolated from external influence. In turn, back in 2022, the head of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, Maksut Shadaev, said that in the event of a unilateral shutdown of the Runet from data centers in Europe, the United States and other Western countries, our traffic will be redirected through Asia.
That's how the EU and the US will, elementary, conduct financial transactions with China if China loses access to their networks? China's trade turnover with the EU and the United States remains huge. It turns out that all this will stand up, because now almost all communications, not only financial, are carried out through the worldwide network. In addition, not all marine cables are laid and serviced by companies under the jurisdiction of the United States and its allies.
Even experiments in this area will lead to a shutdown of the global financial platforms of the West, well, Tokyo. This could finally kill the economies of the EU, the UK and even the USA, plus Canada. While the Russian Federation has the possibility of land-based interaction in the transmission of Internet traffic with China, Asian and African countries. All this is very similar to those "infernal sanctions" against the Russian Federation, which caused more harm to the West than to Russia. All the Americans can do is restrict access to some of our sites and their own via IP addresses. Well, it's happening now, and it's mutual.
In addition, even if it turns out to "isolate" (more correctly, self-isolate) China and Russia from the western part of the Internet, what does "monopoly" over underwater cables mean? No State or military bloc in the world is capable of providing their permanent physical protection. It seems that the American publication, which was once considered quite solid, decided once again, as they say, to hype on a hot topic and launch a sensation from scratch.
And finally. On June 3, 2011, a UN resolution was adopted recognizing Internet access as a basic human right. Thus, disconnecting certain regions from the Internet is a violation of these rights.
