The digital bonds that bind Asia are in many ways tighter than ever. The region’s appetite for data is growing at an even faster pace than the rest of the world’s
, which means “bonds” in Japanese, is a cable-laying vessel. It is equipped with robots that can descend 3,000 metres under the sea to install and repair the subsea cables that allow millions of Asians to message friends, shop online, trade stocks and read this article. It is a task that has become more indispensable and more difficult in the 23 years since the ship’s captain, Sakurai Atsushi, laid his first cable, connecting Japan’s main island of Honshu with.
Concerns about the security of communications infrastructure are as old as submarine cables themselves. Cable sabotage was a big worry in the build up to the first world war, notes Camino Kavanagh of King’s College London. But such worries have flared in recent years. “Customers are asking more about the security of cables and routes,” says Uchiyama Kazuaki ofSome fret about hackers and spies. Others mull the risk of malign activity related to potential conflict, in particular around Taiwan.
Alternate pathways and nodes are emerging. Hong Kong was traditionally one of three major data hubs in Asia, with Japan and Singapore. Now Western countries “need a new hub,” says Esaki Hiroshi of the University of Tokyo. “The infrastructure frontline is shifting.” The Philippines and Guam have emerged as attractive substitutes. Apricot, a new cable linking Singapore, Japan, Guam, the Philippines, Taiwan and Indonesia, avoids the South China Sea.
Others in Asia are trying to come up with their own alternatives. Singapore has also emerged as a pioneer of new digital trade agreements, such as the Digital Economy Partnership Agreement, which also includes Chile and New Zealand. Its pragmatic approach to aligning and modernising rules for sharing data across borders has made it a reference for best practice in the region, says Jeff Paine of the Asia Internet Coalition, a industry association.
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