China’s ‘Peace Cable’ in Europe Raises Tensions with the U.S.

You know, the U.S. could respond to this by teaching people how to protect their communications against fiber-optic cable tapping, a serious threat to the communications of literally everyone in the world that's widely practiced by multiple great powers.

"How do we communicate safely when governments are tapping our communications infrastructure?" is a better question on multiple axes than "Which countries' network equipment and cables are safe to use?".