24 (UPI) -- The United States has accused Chile of putting its own security and regional stability at risk by advancing a proposed undersea fiber-optic cable project known as Chile China Express, backed by state-owned China Mobile. SANTIAGO, Chile, Feb. China Mobile's former president and CEO, He Biao, delivers a speech in March at Mobile World Congress Fira Barcelona convention center in L'Hospitalet del Llobregat, in Barcelona, Spain. The surprise move comes just two weeks before Chile's incoming right-wing government takes over in. The US forced Chile to cancel a Chinese undersea cable. Now the region is asking who gets to decide what infrastructure Latin America builds The Chilean capital Santiago awoke on Wednesday to a mixture of celebration and tension. As the city prepared for the inauguration of its centre-right. Humboldt Cable is a planned fiber optic submarine communications cable that will connect Chile with Australia, becoming the first-ever link between South America and the Asia-Pacific region. As of 2025, the plan is to build a 14,800-kilometre (9,200 mi) cable from Valparaiso, Chile, to.
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