Beijing, Aug. 10 -- As the global battle for technological supremacy intensifies, national security experts are sounding the alarm over China's creeping dominance in telecommunications, an invisible war being waged far below the surface through undersea cables, data centres, and surveillance platforms.

According to Pieuvre, Salih Hudayar, Foreign Minister for the East Turkestan government-in-exile, warns that China's grip on global communications infrastructure poses a direct threat to democracy and security in the West.

"It's not just a trade issue. It's war, an information war," Hudayar told Pieuvre. "And the West is losing."

Undersea cables, critical for internet and communications connectivity, are now central to China's strategy. ...