China is well on its way to dominating global networks. It is the world’s largest provider of telecommunications technology. It has already become a landing point or supplier for 12 percent of the world’s submarine cables, which carry 95 percent of international data. Huawei claims to have cloud computing contracts with 140 countries; another Chinese company, Hengtong Group, has installed 15 percent of the world’s fiber optics.35 China’s BeiDou satellite network has been adopted by dozens of countries and provides greater coverage over 165 of the world’s capital cities than does the U.S.
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