#Pacific undersea cable project sinks after U.S. warns against Chinese bid
“#Pacific undersea cable project sinks after U.S. warns against Chinese bid” SYDNEY/BEIJING, June 18 – A World Bank-led project declined to award a contract to lay sensitive undersea communications cables after Pacific island governments heeded U.S. warnings that participation of a Chinese company posed a security threat, two sources told Reuters. The former Huawei Marine Networks, now called HMN Technologies and majority owned by Shanghai-listed…