PLA SCIENTISTS SAY SUBMARINE CABLES CARRYING 99% OF GLOBAL DATA COULD BE ‘EASY TARGET’

The underwater cables that play a vital role supporting the international digital economy are increasingly vulnerable to attack from low-cost drones, Chinese military researchers have warned. They said the seabed had long been viewed as a strategic “blind spot” due to the difficulty of exploration and the high cost of controlling it, but was becoming a “new arena for great power rivalry”.

News - South China Morning Post reports that the underwater cables that play a vital role supporting the international digital economy are increasingly vulnerable to attack from low-cost drones, Chinese military researchers have warned.

The report adds: They said the seabed had long been viewed as a strategic “blind spot” due to the difficulty of exploration and the high cost of controlling it, but was becoming a “new arena for great power rivalry”.

“The barrier to entry for undersea warfare is lowering,” Shi Guanglei and Shi Haiming from the National...

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