By MarePress Editorial | July 17, 2025

The United States is taking decisive steps to tighten its control over critical undersea telecommunications infrastructure, aiming to ban Chinese technology and equipment from submarine cables that connect to the U.S.


๐Ÿ“ก Whatโ€™s Happening?

On July 16, 2025, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced plans to adopt new rules barring companies from connecting submarine communication cables to the United States if they include Chinese components or technology.

FCC Chair Brendan Carr stated:

“We have seen submarine cable infrastructure threatened in recent years by foreign adversaries, like China. We are therefore taking action here to guard our submarine cables against foreign adversary ownership, access, as well as cyber and physical threats.”


๐ŸŒŠ Why It Matters

Undersea cables are the backbone of global internet โ€” carrying about 99% of international internet traffic. With over 400 subsea cables worldwide, they are essential for financial markets, communications, defense, and global connectivity.

The U.S. has long raised concerns over:

  • Espionage risks from Chinese-linked networks
  • Data security vulnerabilities
  • Critical infrastructure sabotage, highlighted by incidents like:
    • 2023 Taiwan cable cuts allegedly by Chinese vessels near the Matsu Islands
    • Baltic Sea fiber-optic cable sabotage
    • Red Sea Houthi attacks disrupting cables to Europe and Asia

๐Ÿšซ Whoโ€™s on the Watchlist?

The FCC is considering barring equipment and services from companies it designates as national security threats, including:

  • Huawei
  • ZTE
  • China Telecom
  • China Mobile

This move builds on earlier U.S. actions, including the cancellation of four planned cables to Hong Kong since 2020.


๐Ÿ” Whatโ€™s Next?

The FCC will open public comments on:

  • Additional measures to protect submarine cable security
  • Expanding rules to address emerging foreign adversary risks

As geopolitical tensions rise, safeguarding undersea infrastructure has become a frontline issue in U.S.-China tech competition.


๐ŸŒ Final Thoughts

The U.S. drive to ban Chinese technology from undersea cables reflects broader national security priorities and the increasing militarization of the worldโ€™s information highways. For global stakeholders, this signals potential disruptions in connectivity, investment, and digital geopolitics.

Stay tuned at MarePress for updates on maritime cybersecurity, telecommunications, and geopolitical developments shaping the maritime world.

๐ŸŒ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ, ํ•ด์ €ํ†ต์‹ ์ผ€์ด๋ธ”์—์„œ ์ค‘๊ตญ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ์ „๋ฉด ๊ธˆ์ง€ ์ถ”์ง„

๋งˆ๋ ˆํ”„๋ ˆ์Šค ๋ณด๋„ | 2025๋…„ 7์›” 17์ผ

๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ด ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ์ธํ„ฐ๋„ท์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์ธํ”„๋ผ์ธ ํ•ด์ €ํ†ต์‹ ์ผ€์ด๋ธ” ๋ณด์•ˆ ๊ฐ•ํ™”๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด, ์ค‘๊ตญ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ๊ณผ ์žฅ๋น„๊ฐ€ ํฌํ•จ๋œ ์ผ€์ด๋ธ”์˜ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ์„ ๊ธˆ์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ทœ์ œ๋ฅผ ์ถ”์ง„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.


๐Ÿ“ก ์–ด๋–ค ์กฐ์น˜์ธ๊ฐ€?

2025๋…„ 7์›” 16์ผ, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์—ฐ๋ฐฉํ†ต์‹ ์œ„์›ํšŒ(FCC)๋Š” ์ค‘๊ตญ์‚ฐ ๋ถ€ํ’ˆ์ด๋‚˜ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ด ํฌํ•จ๋œ ํ•ด์ €์ผ€์ด๋ธ”์„ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์— ์—ฐ๊ฒฐํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๋„๋ก ํ•˜๋Š” ์‹ ๊ทœ ๊ทœ์ œ์•ˆ ๋„์ž… ๊ณ„ํš์„ ๋ฐœํ‘œํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ธŒ๋ Œ๋˜ ์นด FCC ์œ„์›์žฅ์€ ๋‹ค์Œ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์ด ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

“์ตœ๊ทผ ๋ช‡ ๋…„๊ฐ„ ์ค‘๊ตญ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ์™ธ๊ตญ ์ ๋Œ€ ์„ธ๋ ฅ์— ์˜ํ•ด ํ•ด์ €์ผ€์ด๋ธ” ์ธํ”„๋ผ๊ฐ€ ์œ„ํ˜‘๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํ•ด์ €์ผ€์ด๋ธ”์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์†Œ์œ ๊ถŒ, ์ ‘๊ทผ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‚ฌ์ด๋ฒ„ ๋ฐ ๋ฌผ๋ฆฌ์  ์œ„ํ˜‘์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ณดํ˜ธํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์กฐ์น˜๋ฅผ ์ทจํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.”


๐ŸŒŠ ์™œ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ๊ฐ€?

  • ์„ธ๊ณ„ ์ธํ„ฐ๋„ท ํŠธ๋ž˜ํ”ฝ์˜ **์•ฝ 99%**๊ฐ€ ํ•ด์ €์ผ€์ด๋ธ”์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ „๋‹ฌ๋จ
  • ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„์ ์œผ๋กœ 400๊ฐœ ์ด์ƒ์˜ ํ•ด์ €์ผ€์ด๋ธ” ์กด์žฌ
  • ๊ธˆ์œต์‹œ์žฅ, ๊ตญ๋ฐฉ, ํ†ต์‹  ๋“ฑ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์‚ฐ์—…์— ํ•„์ˆ˜์  ์ธํ”„๋ผ

๋ฏธ๊ตญ์€ ์˜ค๋ž˜์ „๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋‹ค์Œ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ด์œ ๋กœ ์ค‘๊ตญ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„ํ•ด ์™”๋‹ค:

  • ์ค‘๊ตญ์ด ์—ฐ๊ณ„๋œ ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•œ ์ •๋ณด ์œ ์ถœ ๋ฐ ๊ฐ์ฒญ ์œ„ํ—˜
  • ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ๋ณด์•ˆ ์ทจ์•ฝ์„ฑ
  • ์ธํ”„๋ผ ํŒŒ๊ดด ์‚ฌ๋ก€:
    • 2023๋…„ ๋Œ€๋งŒ ๋งˆ์ญˆ์„ฌ ์ธ๊ทผ ์ผ€์ด๋ธ” ์ ˆ๋‹จ (์ค‘๊ตญ ์„ ๋ฐ• ํ˜์˜)
    • ๋ฐœํŠธํ•ด ๊ด‘์ผ€์ด๋ธ” ํŒŒ์† ์‚ฌ๊ฑด
    • ํ™ํ•ด ํ›„ํ‹ฐ ๋ฐ˜๊ตฐ์— ์˜ํ•œ ์ผ€์ด๋ธ” ์ ˆ๋‹จ ๋“ฑ

๐Ÿšซ ๊ธˆ์ง€ ๋Œ€์ƒ ๊ธฐ์—…์€?

FCC๋Š” ๋‹ค์Œ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค์„ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€์•ˆ๋ณด ์œ„ํ˜‘ ๊ธฐ์—… ๋ช…๋‹จ์— ํฌํ•จํ•˜์—ฌ ์žฅ๋น„ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์„ ์ œํ•œํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ํ•œ๋‹ค:

  • ํ™”์›จ์ด (Huawei)
  • ZTE
  • ์ฐจ์ด๋‚˜ ํ…”๋ ˆ์ฝค (China Telecom)
  • ์ฐจ์ด๋‚˜ ๋ชจ๋ฐ”์ผ (China Mobile)

์ด๋ฏธ 2020๋…„ ์ดํ›„ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ๊ณผ ํ™์ฝฉ์„ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐํ•˜๋ ค๋˜ 4๊ฐœ ํ•ด์ €์ผ€์ด๋ธ” ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๊ฐ€ ์ค‘๋‹จ๋œ ๋ฐ” ์žˆ๋‹ค.


๐Ÿ” ๋‹ค์Œ ๋‹จ๊ณ„๋Š”?

FCC๋Š” ๋‹ค์Œ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ์‚ฌํ•ญ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๊ณต์ฒญํšŒ ๋ฐ ์˜๊ฒฌ ์ˆ˜๋ ด์„ ์‹ค์‹œํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ด๋‹ค:

  • ํ•ด์ €์ผ€์ด๋ธ” ๋ณด์•ˆ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ๋ณดํ˜ธ์กฐ์น˜ ๋„์ž…
  • ์™ธ๊ตญ ์ ๋Œ€๊ตญ๊ฐ€ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ์ฐจ๋‹จ ๋ฒ”์œ„ ํ™•๋Œ€

๐ŸŒ ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ

๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ์ด๋ฒˆ ์กฐ์น˜๋Š” ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ํ†ต์‹ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹Œ, ์ง€์ •ํ•™์  ์•ˆ๋ณด ์ „๋žต์˜ ์ผํ™˜์ด๋‹ค. ํ•ด์ €์ผ€์ด๋ธ”์ด โ€˜์ •๋ณด์˜ ๊ตฐ์‚ฌํ™”โ€™๋ผ๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์•ˆ๋ณด ์˜์—ญ์œผ๋กœ ์ „ํ™˜๋˜๋ฉด์„œ, ๊ตญ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ„ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ์ฃผ๊ถŒ๊ณผ ํˆฌ์ž ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์—๋„ ํฐ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น  ์ „๋ง์ด๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“ก ๋งˆ๋ ˆํ”„๋ ˆ์Šค๋Š” ์•ž์œผ๋กœ๋„ ํ•ด์–‘ ์‚ฌ์ด๋ฒ„ ๋ณด์•ˆ, ํ†ต์‹ ๋ง ์ธํ”„๋ผ, ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ํ•ด์–‘ ์•ˆ๋ณด ์ด์Šˆ๋ฅผ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๋„ํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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