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Haven't you heard that the Red Sea has been bustling lately? After months of being upset by the Houthis, there's big news again! It has been reported that at least four communication cables between Asia and Europe have been damaged. Well, 25% of the data traffic between Asia and Europe is affected.
However, it is still a mystery who did this. On the Israeli side, the Houthis have been insisting that the Houthis are doing good things, and just a few weeks before the incident, Yemen** had specifically warned that they might take action against those cables. However, on December 26 last year, the Houthis came out to clarify, saying that this was all a rumor, so they didn't do it. They also say they have been protecting the cables because they are connected to many countries, including themselves.
Interestingly, although they now deny it vigorously, there are people who have threatened to do anything with these cables in the past.
Then, when the four cables did fail, the Houthis began to deny it, reiterating on Saturday that they were not involved. They also shifted the blame to the British and American ** teams circling around the Red Sea, saying that they had caused the sabotage.
Some experts have analyzed that the Houthis may not really have the ability to destroy the cables under the sea. This thing is really getting more and more confusing!
This thing is really mysterious, like the Nord Stream pipeline, which makes people scratch their heads. But to be honest, the Red Sea cable incident really affects us. You think, our current Internet is all supported by these underwater cables, and Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta have thrown a lot of money into it. If something happens to this cable, our network may have to go to heaven!
The Red Sea is a terrible place, and it occupies only one of the few major cable intersections in the world. And guess what? 17% of the world's online data has to go through the cable here!
The Houthis themselves are guilty of this cable. They are in charge of Yemen's network, and recently, the friends over there have complained that the network is good for a while and bad for a while.
Until now, however, the Red Sea cable affair has not messed up global communications. Netbocks' surveillance buddies said that the data center in Djibouti had a small problem last week, and the network went down for a few hours, and then it got better. But no one knows when 25% of the data flow between Asia and Europe will return to normal, and this is not a joke, and there may be a lot of trouble in the future!
They said it would take at least a month to fix it. Why is it so long? Because they have to deal with Yemen's ** and those Houthi rebels, and both sides have to get permission.
Xiaohui guessed that this matter might just be the tip of the iceberg. There's more to the Red Sea than that. Remember the British freighter Rubimar last month? Just in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, the Houthis beat it, and all the people on board abandoned the ship, and finally sank into the sea. There were 2 on that ship10,000 tons of fertilizer!