Military Planners Fear China Threat to Undersea Cables

Were Baltic incidents a rehearsal for action against Taiwan’s undersea communications?

By: Andy Wong Ming Jun

Suspected Chinese embroilment in a mid-November Baltic undersea cable-cutting incident has set off increasingly urgent discussions behind the closed doors of multiple defense ministries in the Asia-Pacific region. The threat that China could deliberately damage or destroy undersea fiber-optic cables in the South China Sea or Wester…