Earlier this month a Chineseowned cargo ship called the Yi Peng 3 was stopped in the Baltic Sea, after undersea internet cables were cut nearby. European officials cried sabotage. There’s serious concern that China and Russia are planning more of these attacks, and the way the internet is set up, it wouldn’t take many of them to cause serious problems. Subscribe: https://ab.co/3yqPOZ5

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