According to the four sources, China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom are planning one of the world's most advanced and far-reaching subsea cable networks in a bid to rival the US in their ongoing tech war. State-owned telecom firms in China are developing a $500 million undersea fiber-optic internet cable network to compete with a similar US-backed project, according to four people involved in the deal. The plan is a sign that an intensifying tech war. The New Cross Pacific Cable System is a 13000km new generation high capacity fibre-optic submarine cable system across the Pacific Ocean directly connecting the US and Asia with landings in China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan and the US. The $500 million project, led by China's HMN Technologies, will connect Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. Major Chinese telecom carriers, including China Telecom.