Chunghwa Telecom, part of the international consortium that owns the cable, said it was able to reroute communications traffic to other cables and service continued uninterrupted. The $500 million Trans-Pacific Express Cable has been connecting East Asian countries to the West Coast of the United States since 2008.
Taiwan has turned to the European Union for help after experiencing dozens of incidents in recent years in which undersea communications cables were damaged without a clear identification of the source of the attack.
Taiwan’s cable attack follows Finland’s stabbing of Russia’s shadow oil tanker fleet and cutting an undersea power cable between Finland and Estonia on Christmas Day.
Such so-called gray zone attacks have proliferated since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine three years ago, as China and Russia test the West’s ability and readiness to withstand hybrid forms of aggression.
