I mean is every cable has two ends, US will tell China's surrounding nations to cut off their end to China, which they can easily do... thats much easier than China going around cutting off everyone elses cables, its all about getting everyone to isolate China, which is the stated goal of Mr Clean.... the world will still have Internet, but China is blackholed and blackedout
Who says they wont cut Russia too?
I'd be very surprised if the Chinese military didn't already have contingency plans to cut off all the submarine internet cables in the Western Pacific.
Whilst China can still operate with a solely Chinese internet, there is no way that Japan, Korea or Taiwan could do so.
These countries are so much smaller in comparison to China or the USA.
And if you look at that map, there are only so many landing points for all these internet cables in the Western Pacific.
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The US doesn't have the power to force the Europeans to disconnect Russia from the internet.
And if both China and Russia are simultaneously cut off, what are the chances of a solid China-Russia military alliance actually happening?
Currently, Russia recognises that it could conquer Poland and possibly part of Germany.
But there is no way for Russia to hold that territory once the US and Europe mobilises.
But if you add the Chinese military into the equation, all bets are off.
Hence it is not in Europe's interest to get into a war with China.