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The United States and its Pacific allies have concerns that cables laid by China could compromise regional security. Beijing has denied any intent to use commercial optic fibre cables, which have far greater data capacity than satellites, for spying.
Nauru, which has strong ties to U.S. ally Australia, helped scupper a World Bank-led cable tender earlier this year over concerns the contract would be awarded to the former Huawei Marine<\/a>, now called HMN Tech, after the Chinese firm lodged a bid priced at more than 20% below rivals.
The tiny Pacific nation of just over 12,000 people has now approached the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to help fund an alternative, the development agency told Reuters.
\"ADB is involved in very early discussions with the government of Nauru to explore possible options to help fund an undersea cable<\/a> to deliver low-cost, high quality internet service,\" the ADB said in a statement to Reuters.
\"The details of the connection arrangement and funding sources will be determined in due course.\"
The two sources said the new plan would involve laying a cable from Nauru to the Solomon Islands capital of Honiara, located about 1,250 kilometres (776.7 miles) apart.
The new line would then tap into the Coral Sea Cable system<\/a>, a 4,700km network that connects Australia to the Solomons and Papua New Guinea. That line, majority funded by Australia and built by Sydney-headquartered Vocus Group, was completed in 2019 to shut out a competing offer from Huawei<\/a> Marine, then owned by Huawei Technologies<\/a>.
The former Huawei Marine is now majority owned by Shanghai-listed Hengtong Optic-Electric Co Ltd after Huawei Technologies sold the submarine cable business last year.
Nauru's plan needs Australia and the Solomons to be on board, the sources said. It is unclear if Nauru has requested financial assistance from Australia or whether it only needs Canberra's permission to join the Coral Sea Cable system.
One source, who has direct knowledge of the planned cable route, described the talks as \"early stage negotiations\".
The second source provided information about discussions between Nauru officials and the ADB, Australia and the Solomons. The source said Nauru was in the process of \"doing a deal\".
The governments of Nauru, Australia and the Solomons did not respond to requests for comment. The World Bank<\/a> said it was not involved in discussions around cables connecting with Nauru.
Nauru was the first to raise concerns over a bid lodged by China's HMN Tech during the World Bank tender process last year to build subsea cables for Nauru, Federated States of Micronesia and Kiribati, sources told Reuters in December. The United States followed up by warning the Pacific island nations that the HMN Tech bid posed a regional security threat.
The project then unravelled after the island governments heeded the U.S. warnings and declined to award a contract.
Australia has ramped up its presence in the Pacific through the creation of a A$2 billion ($1.5 billion)infrastructure financing facility and via its membership of the new \"Quad\" group, together with the United States, India and Japan, to counter China's expanding interests in the Indo-Pacific.
Australia is also part of a trilateral partnership with the United States and Japan that was formed to finance an undersea optic fibre cable for Palau, another Pacific nation.
Washington has pressed governments around the world to squeeze Huawei and other Chinese companies out of supplying sensitive communications equipment, alleging the company could hand over data to the Chinese government for spying, a charge denied by Beijing and Chinese telcos.
A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said in a statement to Reuters last week that Chinese companies had an excellent record in cyber security and that they needed to be able to participate in a non-discriminatory business environment.
Nauru, located in the central Pacific, has retained diplomatic ties to Taiwan, creating tension with China, which regards Taiwan as its own territory. Hosting a major Pacific forum in 2018, Nauru's then president, Baron Waqa, described a Chinese envoy as \"very insolent\" and a \"bully\" after an angry exchange between officials.
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太平洋岛国转向澳大利亚拒绝中国后海底电缆
太平洋美国及其盟友担心电缆铺设,中国可能危及地区安全。北京否认有意使用商业光纤电缆,具有更大的比卫星数据的能力,为从事间谍活动。
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太平洋美国及其盟友担心电缆铺设,中国可能危及地区安全。北京否认有意使用商业光纤电缆,具有更大的比卫星数据的能力,为从事间谍活动。
瑙鲁,美国的盟友澳大利亚关系密切,破坏了世界银行牵头电缆招标今年早些时候担心合同将授予前华为海洋后,现在叫卫生计量系统网络科技,中国公司提出收购定价比竞争对手低20%。
太平洋小国的超过12000人已经接近亚洲开发银行(ADB)帮助基金的另一种选择,发展机构对路透表示。
“亚行早期参与讨论与瑙鲁探索政府资助一个可能的选项海底电缆提供低成本、高质量的网络服务,”亚洲开发银行在一份声明中说。
“连接的细节安排和资金来源将决定在适当的时候”。
两位消息人士表示,新方案将涉及铺设电缆从所罗门群岛首都霍尼亚拉瑙鲁,位于约1250公里(776.7英里)。
新的线就会进入珊瑚海电缆系统4700公里的网络连接澳大利亚所罗门群岛和巴布亚新几内亚。这条线,多数由澳大利亚和由Sydney-headquartered Vocus集团,于2019年竣工排除竞争报价华为海洋,然后归华为技术有限公司。
前华为海洋现在多数属于上海恒通后分析了有限公司去年华为技术销售海底电缆业务。
瑙鲁的计划需要澳大利亚和所罗门群岛上,消息人士说。目前还不清楚如果瑙鲁请求金融援助从澳大利亚堪培拉还是只需要的许可参加珊瑚海电缆系统。
计划的一个来源,直接了解有线路由,会谈形容为“早期谈判”。
第二个来源提供的信息之间的讨论瑙鲁官员和亚行,澳大利亚和所罗门群岛。源说,瑙鲁的过程中“做交易”。
瑙鲁的政府,澳大利亚和所罗门群岛没有回应记者的置评请求。的世界银行说它没有参与讨论和瑙鲁电缆连接。
瑙鲁是第一个提出由中国提出的担忧去年世界银行投标过程中卫生计量系统网络技术构建水下电缆瑙鲁、密克罗尼西亚联邦、基里巴斯、12月消息人士向路透表示。美国随后又警告太平洋岛国,卫生计量系统网络技术的地区安全构成了威胁。
项目然后彻底瓦解了台湾政府听从美国的警告,并拒绝签订合同。
澳大利亚加大其在太平洋通过建立一个20亿美元(15亿美元)的基础设施融资基金,通过新的“四”组的成员,加上美国,印度和日本,应对中国扩大在印度洋-太平洋地区的利益。
澳大利亚也属于一个与美国和日本三国伙伴关系,成立金融帕劳的海底光纤电缆,另一个太平洋国家。
华盛顿敦促世界各国政府紧缩华为和其他中国公司提供敏感的通信设备,指控该公司可以把数据交给中国政府从事间谍活动,北京和中国电信公司否认了这一指控。
中国外交部发言人对路透上周在一份声明中说,中国企业有在网络安全方面的优秀成绩,他们需要能够参与非歧视性的商业环境。
瑙鲁,位于太平洋中部,向台湾保留了外交关系,与中国制造紧张气氛,将台湾视为自己的领土。举办主要太平洋论坛在2018年,当时的瑙鲁总统,男爵Waqa,描述了中国特使“非常傲慢的”和“欺负”一个愤怒的官员之间的交换。
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