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...last two days, the story has been much the same for individuals and businesses from Thailand to Japan following the magnitude 6.7 quake, which killed two people, damaged six key undersea cables off the coast of Taiwan and threw parts of the global telecommunications infrastructure into chaos. Asian businesses were left without email, Internet service and in some cases telephone connections to the outside world. Financial markets were interrupted. Even those who found they could reach some websites experienced download speeds reminiscent of antiquated dial-up service. Communications were returning to normal on Thursday, but network problems could persist...
...some, the outage illustrates the robustness of Asia's telecommunications infrastructure, since the quake did not cause a total blackout. Some traffic was quickly re-routed away from damaged Asian arteries through Europe and the Middle East. But for many, the unexpected return to the pre-Google era was a shocking reminder of the fragility of the technology we depend...
...While the holiday may have saved the region's businesses from major financial pain, Budde says that the outage could serve as a reminder to Asian countries of vulnerabilities in their Internet infrastructure. "(Governments) look at this as a telecommunications problem for telecoms to solve," he says. "But telecoms are looking after shareholder value, not necessarily the national interest. I think one thing that will come out of this is that countries will start to understand this is a national problem, not a telecom problem...
...outlook, the fact remains that there isn't much Russia can do about North Korea, for the simple reason that it lacks leverage over Pyongyang. On the diplomatic front, China is calling the shots; Russia's priority is simply to avoid being sidelined altogether from this key north Asian diplomatic initiative...
...Johns Hopkins University made "the case for Goliath," arguing that a nation that usually behaves tolerably well could provide a network of security beneficial to all. In the past 50 years, the U.S. has taken the lead on everything from rebuilding Europe after World War II to saving the Asian economies from their own excesses in the 1990s. And in the future, whether it is containing Iran and North Korea, or fighting aids in Africa, or helping China assume a new role in the world, U.S. help, might and tutelage will be vital. It's nice that Italy...