The US wants to kill part of an 8,000 mile-long undersea cable linking Hong Kong with LA over China spying fears

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• In 2016 Google and Facebook announced a new high-speed undersea cable connecting Hong Kong and Los Angeles.
• The cable is now laid, but a DOJ committee has advised the FCC deny approval for the Hong Kong section of the cable.
• The committee is worried the cable could be tapped by the Chinese government.
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The US government seems poised to stunt a multimillion undersea cable project by Google and Facebook.

The cable is part of the Pacific Light Cable Network and was announced in 2016. Google said at the time the cable would be 8,000 miles long and span the Pacific Ocean, linking Los Angeles with Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Philippines. It is designed to manage 120 terabytes of data per second, or 80 million HD videoconference calls between LA and Hong Kong, according to Google's statements in 2016.

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