China just built a device that can cut the cables carrying 95% of the world’s internet. China has revealed a deep-sea cable-cutting system capable of severing the steel-reinforced undersea cables that handle more than 95% of the world’s internet traffic, sparking alarm across the global defense and cybersecurity communities.
Built by the state-run China Ship Scientific Research Centre, the device can descend to depths of 4,000 meters and slice through armored cables with a diamond-edged grinding wheel. While Beijing describes it as a tool for salvage operations and seabed resource recovery, its clear military potential, especially when deployed by quiet submersibles near key chokepoints such as Guam, has put analysts on high alert.
The technology’s stealthy deployment options make it both an engineering marvel and a potent instrument of strategic disruption. Although Chinese officials maintain it is purely civilian in purpose, the obvious dual-use capability has intensified worries about deliberate sabotage of the fragile underwater arteries that keep the global internet running.
As geopolitical rivalries deepen and countries scramble to safeguard their digital infrastructure, this breakthrough serves as a stark reminder: the same innovations that push technological boundaries can also expose—and dramatically alter—the balance of power in an increasingly connected world.
Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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