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China’s undersea cable threat raises $10T fears as Trump-Xi talks loom
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The U.S. economy is under threat from adversaries like China targeting undersea cables with the ability to «inflict devastating economic chaos almost at will,» a former U.S. intelligence official warned Sunday.
These cables carry 99% of global data and support up to $10 trillion in daily financial transactions, according to reports.
Andrew Badger, chief strategy officer at Coalition Systems, a defense tech startup, spoke as President Donald Trump is set to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing for talks expected to focus on trade, artificial intelligence and Taiwan.
Taiwan, a flashpoint in U.S.-China tensions, has reported about 30 subsea cable incidents in recent years, including one in which Chinese vessels allegedly severed cables and cut communications for months.
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Two Taiwan Coast Guard personnel board a Togo-flagged cargo ship to inspect it for suspected damage to a submarine cable connecting Taiwan Island and Penghu Island in waters off Penghu, Taiwan, on Feb. 25, 2025. (Taiwan Coast Guard/Anadolu)
«America depends on the fragile nervous system of subsea cables for modern life,» Badger, a former Pentagon official and author, told Fox News Digital before warning that U.S. adversaries «seek to turn the bottom of the ocean into a battlefield.»
«The asymmetric threat — China and Russia are devoting far more resources to attacking undersea infrastructure than the U.S. or its allies are to defending it,» Badger said.
«They’ve identified one of our greatest vulnerabilities, and we haven’t caught up. A coordinated strike on American undersea infrastructure could fundamentally disrupt our way of life — the internet, banking, energy markets and military communications all run through these cables. The dollar cost is almost incalculable, and the real damage would be the chaos and political instability that would follow,» he said.
Badger’s remarks came after Senate Republican Whip John Barrasso, R-Wyo., alongside Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., introduced the bipartisan Strategic Subsea Cables Act of 2026 in April.
The legislation is aimed at strengthening the security and resilience of critical undersea infrastructure.
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The Chinese bulk carrier Yi Peng 3 is anchored in the sea of Kattegat near Granaa, Denmark, on Nov. 20, 2024. Denmark’s navy said it was shadowing the vessel in the Baltic Sea amid investigations into suspected sabotage of undersea telecom cables by Finland and Sweden. (Mikkel Berg Pedersen/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP)
«Undersea cables are important for a variety of reasons. They carry 99% of the world’s internet traffic. They also support $10 trillion in financial transactions each and every day,» Barrasso said in a statement.
In April, China’s Ministry of Natural Resources confirmed a successful deep-sea mission testing an advanced «electro-hydrostatic actuator,» a device capable of slicing through armored submarine cables at depths of 3,500 meters, according to reports.
Similar suspicious disruptions have been reported in Europe and elsewhere, raising concerns about coordinated «gray-zone» operations designed to probe Western responses while remaining below the threshold of open conflict.
«This is hybrid warfare in its purest form, designed to weaken the adversary below the threshold of declared war,» Badger said, noting that incidents such as anchors dragging across the seabed can provide plausible deniability.
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A split image shows Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, and President Donald Trump, right. (Vincent Thian/POOL/AFP via Getty Images; Salwan Georges/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
«Cables give Beijing and Moscow the ability to inflict devastating economic chaos almost at will,» Badger warned. «This gives both nations tremendous strategic leverage over the U.S.»
China could also potentially target American undersea cables as a deterrent to U.S. engagement in Taiwan, according to Badger.
«Beijing could simultaneously target cables landing in the U.S., not to win militarily, but with the goal of breaking the American public’s will to intervene in Taiwan,» he said.
China claims Taiwan as its own territory, while the U.S. — Taiwan’s largest unofficial ally — supplies weapons under a law requiring it to help the island defend itself.
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The Taiwan Strait is also a critical artery for the artificial intelligence revolution’s most essential resources.
Anniki Mikelsaar of the Oxford Internet Institute said growth in AI’s use means «rising capacity requirements on submarine cables. Not all recent cable damage incidents can be attributed to foreign adversaries: the ICPC estimates 150 to 200 cable breaks occur per year around the globe, most of them accidents,» she said.
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Arizona school board member gets backlash after mocking board president with Nazi salute
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An Arizona school board member is facing calls to resign after appearing to make a Nazi salute during a contentious public meeting before later comparing the board president to a dictator and saying, «All I could think of tonight was Hitler.»
Video from a May 26 Deer Valley Unified School District Governing Board meeting appears to show board member Kimberly Fisher raising her right arm and saying, «Heil, heil» during a dispute with board President Paul Carver Jr.
The exchange occurred near the end of the meeting during a disagreement over scheduling a community study session related to district boundary discussions.
According to video of the meeting, Fisher objected to holding the session during the afternoon, arguing that community members would have difficulty attending.
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A still image from a Deer Valley Unified School District board meeting shows board member Kimberly Fisher during a contentious exchange with board President Paul Carver Jr. over meeting procedures. (DVUSD)
«The whole point of having a study session with our community is that we can get their input and they can hear our discussions,» Fisher said during the meeting.
Carver later said he moved to adjourn the meeting because the discussion involved an item that was not on the posted agenda and could have raised concerns under Arizona’s Open Meeting Law.
«The reason for calling for the adjournment was simply that, as the question turned into discussion concerning an item that was not on the agenda, the board was moving into an area that could have been considered a violation of Arizona’s Open Meeting Law,» Carver said in a Facebook video posted after the meeting.
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Carver said Fisher made the gesture and comment after the motion to adjourn.
«The point behind this post is that there’s a lot of noise being made that she may have been justified in making that statement because she felt like I was being a dictator,» Carver said. «I was simply following the rules of the state of Arizona.»
He added that «it is never okay to make those gestures and make that statement with those gestures in any environment.»
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The incident prompted condemnation from district officials, who said Fisher was acting independently and did not represent the views of the district.
«The District does not condone, support, or endorse gestures or language associated with hate, discrimination, intimidation or violence in any form,» Deer Valley Unified School District said in a statement. «Such actions do not reflect the mission or vision of Deer Valley Unified School District.»
Kim Fisher took to Facebook hours after the board meeting to explain her side of the story. (Facebook/@kim.fisher.233417)
The district added that Fisher’s «views and actions do not reflect and should not be attributed to other board members, staff, other members of the school community or the District.»
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The Deer Valley Educators Association also condemned Fisher’s conduct and called for her resignation.
«DVEA was horrified and disgusted to see DVUSD Governing Board Member Kimberly Fisher deliver a Nazi salute during the Tuesday, May 26, 2026, board meeting,» association president Kelley Fisher said in a statement.
«Any leader who uses a Nazi salute during a School Board meeting is unfit for public service. There is no justification for this behavior. Kimberly Fisher should resign before she does more harm to our students and the community at large.»
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Hours after the meeting, Fisher posted a Facebook livestream in which she doubled down on her criticism of Carver, repeatedly describing his leadership as dictatorial.
«We have been living or operating under virtually a dictatorship for a long time,» Fisher said.
She also accused Carver of acting like «a dictator» and urged voters not to support him in future elections.
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Near the end of the livestream, Fisher appeared to connect her thinking during the meeting to historical dictators.
«What was it? Pol Pot, you know, was the most egregious dictator I’ve heard of,» Fisher said. «All I could think of tonight was Hitler.»
Fisher did not directly address the gesture or comment from the meeting during the livestream.
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In a separate video posted to social media, Carver said community members had asked why the board was not taking action against Fisher. He argued Arizona law limits the ability of school boards to discipline elected members.
Deer Valley Unified School District Governing Board President Paul Carver Jr. addresses community questions in a Facebook video after a May 26 board meeting during which board member Kimberly Fisher appeared to make a Nazi salute and say «heil, heil.» (Facebook/@paul.carver.264650)
«I need the community to understand that in the state of Arizona, the school district and the board do not have the ability to discipline board members,» Carver said.
Carver called Fisher’s behavior «rampant and repetitive» and said her actions were «totally unacceptable and unprofessional.»
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Deer Valley Unified School District serves more than 33,000 students across northern Maricopa County, including communities in north Phoenix, Glendale, Peoria, Cave Creek and New River, according to the district.
Fox News Digital reached out to Fisher for comment.
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La conmemoración de la Constitución recuerda 41 años de vigencia democrática en Guatemala
Guatemala conmemora este 31 de mayo el 41° aniversario de la Constitución Política de la República, aprobada por la Asamblea Nacional Constituyente el 31 de mayo de 1985 y vigente desde el 14 de enero de 1986, una norma que organiza los poderes del Estado, protege los derechos ciudadanos y marcó el retorno del país a una etapa institucional y democrática tras la ruptura constitucional de 1982.
La actual Carta Magna contiene 281 artículos distribuidos en ocho títulos, además de 22 disposiciones transitorias, y fue reformada en 1993 y 1999, según el texto fuente.
También dio origen de forma permanente a la Corte de Constitucionalidad y creó la Procuraduría de los Derechos Humanos como institución comisionada por la Presidencia pero independiente de ella, de acuerdo con el texto proporcionado.
El Día Nacional de la Constitución se celebra cada 31 de mayo por disposición del Decreto 2-86 de la Asamblea Nacional Constituyente, según el texto fuente. La conmemoración recuerda la proclamación de la norma fundamental que sustituyó el vacío institucional abierto tras el golpe de Estado de marzo de 1982.
La Constitución que rige hoy en Guatemala fue redactada por una Asamblea electa de manera directa y popular con ese objetivo. Su trabajo debía restablecer el orden constitucional después de que el país quedara sin una instancia constituyente, según el texto fuente.
El proceso que condujo a la Constituyente se inició durante el gobierno del general Efraín Ríos Montt, cuando el jefe de Estado y el Consejo de Estado emitieron tres normas: el Decreto 30-83, Ley Orgánica del Tribunal Supremo Electoral; el Decreto 31-83, Ley del Registro de Ciudadanos; y el Decreto 32-83, Ley de Organizaciones Políticas, según el texto fuente.
El Tribunal Supremo Electoral comenzó a funcionar el 1 de julio de 1983, después de la emisión de esas leyes políticas, y en su primera ley se creó la primera Comisión de Postulación, de acuerdo con el texto proporcionado. En agosto de ese año, Ríos Montt fue reemplazado por el general Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores como jefe de Estado.
Bajo ese nuevo mando, el régimen militar y los partidos políticos acordaron convocar una Asamblea Nacional Constituyente para devolver al país a la senda constitucional, según el texto fuente. Esa decisión derivó en las elecciones del 1 de julio de 1984 para designar a 88 diputados constituyentes.
En esos comicios participaron 17 partidos políticos y tres comités cívicos, de acuerdo con el texto fuente. La Asamblea quedó integrada por 88 personas elegidas por voto popular y recibió el mandato exclusivo de redactar la nueva Constitución.
La respuesta central a qué se conmemora este 31 de mayo es precisa: Guatemala recuerda la promulgación de la Constitución aprobada por los 88 diputados de la Asamblea Nacional Constituyente el 31 de mayo de 1985, la ley suprema que desde el 14 de enero de 1986 regula el sistema de gobierno, fija las garantías de legitimidad de las autoridades y sostiene la institucionalidad del Estado, según el texto fuente.
La Asamblea organizó su trabajo con una presidencia rotativa integrada por Ramiro de León Carpio, de la UCN; Roberto Carpio Nicolle, de la DCG; y Héctor Aragón Quiñónez, del MLN-CAN, de acuerdo con el texto proporcionado. El documento final fue el resultado de negociaciones políticas plasmadas en 281 artículos.
El texto fuente señala que la participación ciudadana en la elección constituyente fue “entusiasta y masiva”, y que de ese proceso surgieron los nombres de los 88 diputados que promulgaron la nueva Carta Magna. También indica que sectores de la izquierda representativa repudiaron ese proceso electoral.
La Constitución de 1985 es, según el texto proporcionado, la más duradera de las nueve que ha tenido Guatemala desde su historia republicana. Su vigencia consolidó instituciones creadas en esa etapa de transición, entre ellas la Corte de Constitucionalidad como tribunal encargado de garantizar la supremacía constitucional.
El texto fuente añade que la fecha debía tener una conmemoración nacional y afirma que el Congreso no celebró oficialmente el Día de la Constitución como ordena el Decreto 2-86. También sostiene que omitir ese aniversario revela una desconexión de quienes están llamados a defender la ley suprema del país.
La conmemoración incorpora además una apelación pedagógica contenida en el texto fuente: reafirmar el compromiso de los guatemaltecos con el régimen de legalidad y enseñar a los niños el contenido de la Constitución para garantizar su cumplimiento.
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