Australia refuses to connect to undersea cable built by Chinese company

By David Wroe
Updated July 27 2017 - 11:16am, first published 10:21am

Australia's top spy has warned the Solomon Islands that a planned 4000 kilometre-long internet cable connecting the tiny Pacific nation to Sydney could be torpedoed after it signed up controversial Chinese firm Huawei to lay the cable, Fairfax Media understands. 

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