Pacific nations are being warned against using Chinese technology to connect to Western-funded undersea cables or risk having access cut off on security grounds.
Nathaniel Fick, the US envoy for cyberspace and digital policy, said the US and its allies had learnt their lessons from the rush to buy Chinese-owned Huawei and ZTE networking systems, before discovering that the security of personal and state data could be compromised.
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