After World War II, the United States officially replaced Britain and became the global hegemon, and today the United States is still the only "superpower". Although U.S. President Joe Biden has repeatedly reiterated that the United States will not decouple from China, the U.S. actions in the field of Internet data have seen the rhythm of the U.S. push for decoupling from China. Japanese media have disclosed that the United States has been competing for the construction of submarine fiber optic cables since 2020, and more often avoid China, thus highlighting the strategic intentions of the United States.
The United States has built the foundation of the Internet, and at the same time, the root server of the Internet is stored in the United States, so as to achieve control over the global Internet. According to public information, the current data center operating income in the United States has accounted for 38%, while China's proportion in the same period is only 9% in 2023, and there is a downward trend. Judging from the actions of the United States, it is to move data centers in the Asia-Pacific region to Southeast Asia, thereby weakening China's influence.
Since 2020, the United States has promoted the so-called "clean network" strategy, which is to eliminate Chinese equipment in the Internet field, including not using China-built submarine fiber optic cables, and the United States has exerted pressure and coercion to prevent China from joining the construction of related submarine fiber optic cables. The actions of the United States in the field of Internet hardware are the same as the United States to prevent the promotion of China's 5G equipment and technology around the world, in fact, the United States has its own mind, because by eliminating China's equipment and technology, the United States can install backdoor procedures, including the construction of submarine optical cables, and the United States can set up listening equipment through optical cable nodes, so as to eavesdrop on the Asia-Pacific region.
The United States cannot accept China's growth, so it has encircled and contained China in many fields. Driven by the U.S. "Indo-Pacific Strategy", the U.S. has been suppressing China at multiple levels, including using its hegemony to bypass China's submarine fiber optic cables, so as to build network communications that the U.S. can dominate. At present, the global Internet is very dependent on submarine fiber optic cables, and in fact, the United States has compressed the sovereign status of other countries' Internet by expanding the proportion of submarine fiber optic cables, so it is necessary to be vigilant against the strategy of the United States.
The construction of submarine communication fiber optic cables requires strong economic support, but also hardware support, including special laying vessels, which is not something that ordinary countries can afford. In fact, while the United States is actively expanding its control over submarine communication fiber optic cables, it is also trying to monopolize low-orbit Internet communication satellite technology, thus occupying a new strategic height. At present, the American Space Exploration Corporation has launched related satellites on a large scale, and has already given Ukraine great help during the conflict of the Ukrainian crisis, thus demonstrating the dominance of Internet communication satellites.