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Subsea Cables and the AI Race: How the South China Sea Became Asia’s Digital Chokepoint

Executive Summary The first article in this series examined the chips. The second examined the data centers. This one examines the wires. Beneath the surface of the South China Sea runs one of the world’s most consequential concentrations of digital infrastructure — a dense web of subsea fiber-optic cables carrying the overwhelming majority of data…