Solomon Islands is part of the Commonwealth, like Australia. Pacific islands have historically been strategic locations.
Military have always been keen on having their comms run through controlled territories. WW1 telegraphs to Australia went London => Capetown => Cocos Islands => Freemantle => Adelaide => Sydney so that they did not have to traverse an enemy controlled land. That's right, there was a submarine landing station at Grange near Adelaide, then the Sydney/Melbourne path was terrestrial. You can imagine how the risk analysis starts to stack up for defence advisors if there's an outside chance they might have a future issue with the comms vendor's major investor. John On 27 July 2017 at 15:06, Mark Newton <[email protected]> wrote: > A submarine cable connecting Sydney to the Solomon Islands is being > refused a landing permit in Sydney because it’s being built by Huawei. > > http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/ > australia-refuses-to-connect-to-undersea-cable-built-by- > chinese-company-20170726-gxj9bf.html > > So, uh, don’t do that then, hey? > > - mark > > > > _______________________________________________ > AusNOG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog > >
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