As a result, the strategy goes beyond cyber conflict management rules and focuses on U.S. efforts to secure control of physical technologies, such as the undersea cables that connect countries, businesses, and individual users to cloud services.
Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei is seeking to dominate cable installations in the Pacific and increasingly around the world. But Fick argues that American, Japanese and European companies still dominate the market, and “this is still one area where we can compete vigorously.”
In his speech, Blinken said that as part of his vision for diplomacy, he would encourage countries to become less dependent on undersea cables, data storage and cloud computing supplies from Chinese suppliers and other nations in China's technology orbit. He clarified that this includes persuasion. He explains that there will be increasingly zero-sum competition, and countries will have to choose between signing up for a Western-led technology “stack” or Chinese-led technology.
“The United States currently leads the world in these areas, but providers from authoritarian states are becoming more competitive,” Blinken said at the RSA conference. “It’s important to work with vendors you trust and remove those you don’t trust from your ecosystem.”
Mr. Blinken implicitly made it clear that it was Chinese companies that he labeled as untrustworthy.
He is working on a U.S.-backed effort to unite the 100,000 people living on the Pacific islands, which have small populations but are targeted by China because of their strategic location, along with Australia, Japan, New Zealand and Taiwan. mentioned. Expanding influence in the South Pacific.
