Protecting the Backbone of the Internet

Podcast Episode by H. Andrew Schwartz and Erin L. Murphy
Published February 24, 2025

CSIS’s Erin Murphy joins the podcast to discuss why subsea cables are so important to global security and how they can impact competition with China.

CSIS’s Erin Murphy, deputy director of the CSIS Chair on India and Emerging Asia Economics, joins the podcast to discuss why subsea cables are so important to global security, the global actors most likely to sabotage these cables, how they play into great power competition with China, and policy recommendations to mitigate these threats.