According to the United States' “Wall Street Journal” reported on the 9th, the US government allowed Google to start the Pacific high-speed Internet optical cable connecting Los Angeles and Taiwan, but the cable was not allowed to connect with Hong Kong on the grounds of “the existence of national security risks”. The comment said, “This decision highlights the growing tension between the United States and China.” Fang Xingdong, founder of the Internet Lab, told the Global Times reporter on the 9th that the United States chose Taiwan as the connection point, mainly because Taiwan is in its control. Within the scope, if you connect to Hong Kong, you will worry about the participation of Chinese-funded companies. “If Chinese companies have a higher share of submarine fiber optic cables, it will become increasingly difficult for the US global monitoring program to be implemented.”

　　According to reports, the Pacific submarine cable project was supported by Google, Facebook and China Peng Telecom Media Group. The project originally planned to lay 12,900 kilometers of submarine cable between Hong Kong, China and Los Angeles, USA. According to the Dr. Peng Group website, this will be the only international submarine cable project in Hong Kong, China, directly connected to the United States. It will satisfy telecom operators, multinational OTT companies, cloud computing service providers, data center service providers, and Internet service providers. Business and large multinational corporations demand high-speed, low-cost, large-capacity international communication bandwidth from Hong Kong, China to the United States and the Trans-Pacific region. However, in August 2019, “information sources” of the US government said that there were “worries” about Chinese investors' “relationship with the Chinese government” and Hong Kong's autonomy on the project. “The Wall Street Journal” said that in the case that the relevant departments of the United States have not issued a license for the commissioning of optical cables, the relevant enterprises are still continuing to build the project, and the construction of submarine lines and land anchoring stations has been basically completed. In January of this year, Google changed its course and asked the relevant departments for preliminary approval to open the part of the cable that does not involve Hong Kong.

　　According to Reuters, the US Department of Justice supports Google 's amendment. The department said on the 8th when it announced its decision: “There is a significant risk in allowing the US and (China) Hong Kong to directly connect optical cables, which may seriously endanger US national security and law enforcement interests.” The inter-departmental “telecommunications team” led by the Ministry of Justice is responsible for evaluating major international data projects, which have tended to be tough on China in recent years. The group urged the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to allow Google to use the Pacific fiber optic cable linking Los Angeles and Taiwan. The FCC approved this requirement on the afternoon of the 8th, allowing Google to use some of the fiber optic lines in the next 6 months until the final disposal of the license application.

　　This optical cable costing hundreds of millions of dollars has been built to connect to Taiwan and Hong Kong, but it has not been put into use. The Wall Street Journal commented, “This decision may end Hong Kong's dominance as the preferred destination for Internet cables in the United States and jeopardize several ongoing projects, including a Facebook-backed cable connecting Los Angeles and Hong Kong , And a project supported by Google to connect Hong Kong and Guam in the United States. ” Reuters said the United States expressed concern about China's role in handling network traffic and “potential espionage.” About 300 submarine cables carry 99% of the global data traffic and form the backbone of the Internet.

　　“Global Internet continues to decompose into regional Internet”, the US Internet technology website TechCrunch reported on the 9th that the Pacific optical cable project faced years of delays due to the relationship between the United States and China. The original goal of the cable was to connect the United States with Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the Philippines, enabling technology companies such as Google and Facebook to transfer large amounts of information from their domestic data centers to the rapidly growing Asia-Pacific region. The article said that in the context of the global pandemic of the new coronavirus and the record demand for using the Internet to work from home, this bandwidth is more urgently needed. However, the Trump administration has “put a strict magnifying glass” on the transaction structure and its operation process through the “telecommunications team” review process. “This quiet bureaucracy holds the American Internet.”

　　In recent years, the United States has repeatedly blocked communication projects involving Chinese companies on the grounds of “national security”. In fact, it is the United States that uses communication projects to steal other state secrets and endanger the security of other countries. Popular science author Zhang Chi told the Global Times reporter on the 9th that the possibility of stealing information through the submarine optical cable itself is very small, practically speaking, it is almost impossible, but the operator that converts the signal transmitted in the optical cable into information is most likely Become a source of leaks.

　　Fang Xingdong told the Global Times reporter on the 9th that the current transfer of trade between countries, regions and regions has reached a bottleneck. At present, the most important thing is the transfer of data streams, and the transfer of data streams mainly depends on submarine optical cables, so submarine optical cables This kind of infrastructure construction greatly promotes interregional cooperation and economic development. The flow of cross-border data is already the most important indicator of globalization. The fewer optical cables between China and the United States, the lower the data transmission efficiency, which will seriously affect the development of big data, cloud computing and other Internet industries in the two countries and the business expansion of technology giants.