Private cables & national assets --- @Florence, exactly. I will add one more question. How can we declare cables as critical national asset when most of the cables/infrastructure is owned by corporations. For instance, how can (let's take) Italy protect undersea cables as national critical asset and adopt policies in this context when let's say the Chinese owner of the cable in eventual political or military conflict decides that it is in Chinese interest to cut-off the "Italian critical asset". p.s I'm choosing the countries just randomly. Private corporations have their own profit-led interests, while states have other Geo-strategic, national or economic interests that can collide or be opposite to the interests of the private owners of the cables.

Source author: Vladimir Nikolov vladimir984@yahoo.com