Exclusive-Pacific island turns to Australia for undersea cable after spurning China

By Jonathan Barrett SYDNEY (Reuters) -The Pacific island of Nauru is negotiating for the construction of an undersea communications cable that would connect to an Australian network, two sources with knowledge of the talks told Reuters, after the earlier rejection of a Chinese proposal. The United States and its Pacific allies have concerns that cables laid by China could compromise regional security. Beijing has denied any intent to use commercial optic fibre cables, which have far greater data capacity than satellites, for spying. Nauru, which has strong ties to U.S. ally Australia, helped s...