Asia Pacific Pathways to Progress

Public-private partnership allows governments and businesses to work together in securing submarine cables, where over 95% of internet traffic flows. States can have a stake in an infrastructure crucial to their security and prosperity. Aside from telco and tech companies, private funds can be tapped to finance cable construction and operation. Integration or partnerships between cable producers, layers and shipyards can build local capacity to quickly repair cuts and restore interrupted service. PPPs can be extended to a regional level. Research Fellow Lucio B. Pitlo III co-authored this joint piece with National Taiwan Ocean University Professor Ya-chi Chiang.

Asian Angle | Asia’s digital future hangs by a thread beneath the ocean waves Public-private partnerships are essential to ensuring the security of undersea cables against attacks, data theft and espionage.

US-China competition, especially under a potentially volatile second Trump administration, adds a dangerous layer in boiling flashpoints in the Philippines’ north (Taiwan Strait) and west (South China Sea). The deepening of PH-US alliance, expanded US military access, missile deployment, and warming up to security minilaterals and a Taiwan contingency comes as sea and air clashes become more frequent and violent and PH-China relations wane. Research Fellow Lucio Blanco Pitlo III joined other distinguished authors in this Italian language volume of Limes, the Italian Review of Geopolitics, aptly titled “Lords of the Oceans” (in English). It covers maritime issues and hotspots from the Indo-Pacific to the Mediterranean.

"I signori degli oceani", il numero 10/24 di Limes La copertina, il sommario e la presentazione del numero 10/24 di Limes.