The United States has warned Pacific island nations about security threats posed by a Chinese company’s cut-price bid to build an undersea internet cable.
Huawei Marine, which was divested from Huawei and is now majority-owned by another Chinese firm, submitted bids along with French-headquartered Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN), part of Finland’s Nokia, and Japan’s NEC, for the $72.6 million project backed by the World Bank and Asian Development Bank (ADB), the sources with direct knowledge of the project details said.
The project is designed to improve communications to the island nations of Nauru, Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) and Kiribati.
China’s Huawei Marine bidding for the World Bank-backed East Micronesia cable project, raising concerns in the U.S.
Source: Reuters #Dec17
https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-china-pacific-exclusive-idUKKBN28R0L2
#OverseaCableProject #Huawei #China
Huawei Marine, which was divested from Huawei and is now majority-owned by another Chinese firm, submitted bids along with French-headquartered Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN), part of Finland’s Nokia, and Japan’s NEC, for the $72.6 million project backed by the World Bank and Asian Development Bank (ADB), the sources with direct knowledge of the project details said.
The project is designed to improve communications to the island nations of Nauru, Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) and Kiribati.
China’s Huawei Marine bidding for the World Bank-backed East Micronesia cable project, raising concerns in the U.S.
Source: Reuters #Dec17
https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-china-pacific-exclusive-idUKKBN28R0L2
#OverseaCableProject #Huawei #China