Japanese media hype about "resisting China's influence" is full of calculation! Japan, the United States, and Australia are laying optical cables in South Pacific. Japan | country | optical cable
The Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on the 6th that in order to support Pacific island countries in improving infrastructure, Japan, the United States, and Australia will provide funding to lay approximately 2250 kilometers of underwater optical cables in the Micronesian Islands region, with the aim of completing the installation by around 2025. Kyodo News Agency of Japan stated that this move aims to counter China's frequent maritime activities and efforts to expand its influence in the South Pacific, and promote the realization of a "free and open Indo Pacific".
According to reports, the submarine fiber optic cable will connect the Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, and Kiribati, with a project value of approximately 13.2 billion yen. Japan, the United States, and Australia claim that this submarine fiber optic cable project will provide faster, higher quality, more reliable, and safer communication services to approximately 100000 people. The US media said on the 7th that just two weeks before the announcement, the leaders of the US Japan India Australia "Quartet Security Dialogue" mechanism stressed the importance of submarine optical cables as a key component of communication infrastructure and the basis of Internet connectivity.
According to Global Times reporters, communication services have always been a challenge for local residents in the three Pacific island countries due to their distance from major continents. Chen Hong, Director of the Australian Research Center at East China Normal University, told reporters on the 7th that the main reason for this phenomenon is that Pacific island countries have long been plundered and exploited by Western colonialism, and their economic models are very single. Even after independence, due to the relatively low level of national economy, infrastructure construction is still relatively backward. They have cooperated with China in information construction projects and other areas, but both have been maliciously attacked and obstructed by Western countries. At the same time, Western countries are attempting to control the dominant position in South Pacific information construction, in order to shape "common values". Chen Hong reminded that in recent times, the United States and the West have been trying to promote "soft power construction". If they control the dominant position in the construction of the South Pacific information network, they will inevitably carry the values of the United States and the West in this process, emphasizing their political concepts. We must remain vigilant about this.