A weekend headline from the South China Morning Post declaring “China unveils a powerful deep-sea cable-cutter that could reset the world order” caught plenty of attention and amplified anxieties ...

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The new deep-sea cable-cutting device can sever lines at depths of up to 4,000 meters and has been designed for China’s advanced crewed and uncrewed submersibles.

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