Australia may refuse connection to China-built undersea cable over spying concerns – report

‘Concerns over spying by Beijing may force Australia to curb the Solomon Islands’ plans for stable internet access, after the small Pacific nation hired a Chinese company to lay an undersea cable connected to Sydney, Australian media reported.
The Sydney Morning Herald, part of Fairfax Media holding, said it believes that the head of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service, Nick Warner, has warned the Solomon Islands against working with Chinese IT giant Huawei.
“A planned 4,000 kilometer-long internet cable… could be torpedoed” over fears of spying by China, the paper said when writing about the possibility of Australia curbing the project.
Warner reportedly made his warning to the Solomon Islands’ prime minister, Manasseh Sogavare, when visiting the island state’s capital of Honiara in June for a ceremony marking the end of Australian military and police assistance to the country.’
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