The Peace Cable emerges in Marseille by Chinese companies

An underwater cable known as Peace emerges on the beach at the French port of Marseille this year. The 12,000-kilometer cable system runs overland from China to Pakistan, where it dives and continues across the Horn of Africa, across the Red and Mediterranean Seas to Europe. The Peace Cable, built by Chinese companies, can transfer data per second to cover 90,000 hours of Netflix Internet TV shows. It will mainly serve Chinese companies that trade in Africa and Europe, Bloomberg wrote on Saturday. The project is also a new chapter in Internet geopolitics. The third largest stake in Hengtong Optic-Electric, which is building the cable system, is owned by Huawei Technologies, the core of a trade and security dispute between China and the United States. In addition, Huawei supplies equipment for the system. The Alphabet group, which includes Google, Facebook and Youtube, said they would not use the cable system because they had enough capacity. However, if they wanted to take advantage of the Peace project, it would not be easy because of the boycott of Chinese technology companies, initiated by the administration of former US President Donald Trump, by referring to national security, Bloomberg recalled. Submarine cables are extremely strategically important. Currently, 400 of them cover 98 percent of international Internet data and telephone traffic. Most of them are operated by American companies, which helps to strengthen American dominance over the Internet environment.