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The insanity of allowing any Chinese company to come within a light year of critical infrastructure needs to end. Every Chinese company is either directly controlled by the Communist Party of China as a state company, or beholden to the CCP by law and coercion. There is no such thing as a safe or benevolent Chinese company, none should be trusted.
Just hire American companies to do the work. It is that simple. Just do it.
For all practical purposes, the US no longer has the capability to service even a small portion of the underseas cables. Fixing this issue will take over a decade and agreement between Democratic and Republican administrations. While this is happing, China will invest billions of dollars in lobbying and 'advertising' to prevent this. This is no different that the billions of dollars they invest telling us that nuclear power and carbon based fuels are evil and the only solution to our energy need is Chinese produced solar and wind energy. Meanwhile at home they are investing heavily in new nuclear and coal power systems.
