A weekend headline from the South China Morning Post declaring “China unveils a powerful deep-sea cable-cutter that could reset the world order” caught plenty of attention and amplified anxieties about undersea infrastructure vulnerability and geopolitical competition. The SCMP described China’s new cable-cutting device as capable of severing heavily fortified submarine cables at depths of up to 4,000 metres, twice the operational depth of most existing subsea communications infrastructure. (The Lowy Institute. The Interpreter.)
