House Advances Bill Calling for Strategy to Defend, Retain Control of Subsea Cables

Among the challenges presented by the decade-long military modernization and expansion of China’s ruling Communist Party (CCP) is a “robust space program” potentially targeting more than 9,000 American-owned satellites orbiting the Earth.
Space will be a battleground, Pentagon officials have repeatedly warned in Congressional hearings since February regarding President Joe Biden’s $863 billion Fiscal Year 2024 budget request.
Overlooked, some say, by the United States and its allies is another realm the CCP and the Kremlin are preparing to dominate—the planet’s seabeds, where more than 550 active and under-construction fiber-optic cable bundles spanning about 750,000 miles across the world are vulnerable to sabotage and espionage….}