In January, 2025, a Chinese-owned vessel severed an undersea fiber-optic cable near Taiwan. While service disruptions were minimal, the incident highlighted Taiwan's vulnerability to such threats amid ongoing geopolitical tensions. China's illegal, coercive, aggressive, and deceptive (ICAD) activities pose a mounting threat to global democracies, with subsea cable sabotage emerging as a particularly alarming tactic. These fiber-optic cables, which carry over 99 percent of global internet traffic, form the backbone of modern. On 17–18 November 2024, two submarine telecommunication cables, the BCS East-West Interlink and C-Lion1 fibre-optic cables, were disrupted in the Baltic Sea. As of June, 2024, three out of five of its international cables—the Intra Asia (IA). Specialised ships like the 'NKT Victorial' use various tools to find the exact location of the cable cut, retrieve the cable, splice the damaged sections (replacing damaged sections with new cable segments), test and lower back to the seabed. Subsea cable repairs are not an easy fix, according to. Two undersea cables carrying internet data deep in the Baltic Sea were damaged, European telecommunications companies said this week, drawing warnings from European governments of possible Russian "hybrid warfare" targeting global communications infrastructure. The CGA says the vessel, the Hong Tai 168, had been loitering within roughly 925 meters of the cable since.