Worried that the Hong Kong system is endangering the Ministry of Justice of the United States, and the Ministry of Justice advocates the approval of Google to use the submarine cable to connect Taiwan

Instant International

Written by: Li Fuyuan

2020-04-09 04:34

The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday (8th) recommended that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approve Google ’s parent company Alphabet Inc ’s request to use the Pacific Light Cable Network (PLCN) connecting the United States and Taiwan instead of Connect the Hong Kong system.

The total length of the trans-Pacific submarine fiber optic network is about 12,000 kilometers. (Photo by Facebook @ Pacific Light Data Communication)

In a letter to the FCC, the Department of Justice stated that the Department of Justice and other agencies in the United States believe that "approving a cable system that directly connects the United States and Hong Kong will seriously endanger national security and the law enforcement rights of the United States." The FCC has not yet responded.

The trans-Pacific submarine fiber optic network has a total length of about 8,000 miles (about 12,000 kilometers) and was built by Google, Facebook and China ’s fourth largest telecommunications company, Dr. Peng Telecommunications Media Group. To operate.

PLCN was originally scheduled to be directly connected to the US West Bank from Hong Kong (Photo SubmarineNetworks)

Earlier reports said that the Special Telecommunications Team (Team Telecom) under the CFIUS is considering the plan. It is reported that the representatives from the Ministry of Justice in the group strongly opposed the plan and believed that the project involved investors from China. Even though Dr. Peng is not a Chinese state-owned enterprise, he was found to have an inextricable relationship with Huawei. Connecting to Hong Kong may be easily controlled by China, and therefore opposes the connection of this fiber optic network to Hong Kong.

Therefore, Google and Facebook decided to apply for the reconstruction of PLCN at the beginning of this year, and changed the other end to Taiwan and the Philippines to pass the FCC review.

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