The Internet's true circulatory system lies deep underwater.

Nearly 900,000 miles of fiber optic cables snake across ocean floors, transporting the

world's information, financial transactions, military and diplomatic traffic.

American firms have dominated the cable-laying business since the start, but now China

is entering the scene with one of the world's most advanced and far-reaching subsea cable

networks.

It's a $500 million undersea fiber optic cable that would link Asia, the Middle East and

Europe.

And it's snapped the United States to attention.

Here's Republican Congressman Brian Mass of Florida, in March, speaking about the bipartisan

undersea cable control act, which passed the House.

Chinese companies heavily subsidized, of course, by the PRC, the Communist government, have

started investing heavily in owning and supplying subsea cables.

Think things like voice communications, data, Internet, trillions of daily international

financial transactions, things that you don't want China getting a hold of.

They weaponize every bit of social media that they can.

They try to make these capabilities fit.

Their own nefarious ends.

So do we really think for a second that they would not do the same with undersea cables?

I'm not going to be fooled into thinking that.

The Chinese cable counted telecom giant Huawei technologies as one of its shareholders.

Robert Spalding of the Hudson Institute told Bloomberg News that's a cause for concern.

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