Beijing urged to enact dedicated law for undersea fibre-optic cable protection
Global fears over critical ocean infrastructure sabotage prompt legal recommendations at Shanghai Maritime University.
نظرة سريعة
Beijing faces calls from a Shanghai Maritime University law professor to enact a dedicated law protecting undersea fibre-optic cables amid rising global threats to critical ocean infrastructure.
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لماذا يهم
Undersea cables carry about 99 per cent of global intercontinental data.
Beijing has been urged to create its own law to protect its underwater fibre-optic cables, as global fears grow over sabotage of critical ocean infrastructure.
The recommendation by Shanghai Maritime University law professor Guo Ran comes amid growing threats to the undersea cables that carry about 99 per cent of global intercontinental data, including in critical chokepoints such as the Red Sea and the Baltic Sea.
The policy journal is supervised by the China Law Society, a state-run organisation that advises on legislation.
In recent years, China has introduced the Data Security Law and the Cybersecurity Law to tighten its grip on the digital realm, but these legal frameworks have focused on data processing and cross-border data flows, while physical seabed infrastructure has remained largely unregulated.
أسئلة مفتوحة
- Will Beijing draft a specific law for undersea cables?
- How vulnerable is physical seabed infrastructure currently?
