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He Refused Billions From China. Now They’re Trying to Destroy His Company | Declan Ganley

Declan Ganley’s company, Rivada Networks, is developing a technology that may revolutionize global connectivity and security—and it appears that the Chinese communist regime is desperately seeking to gain control of it.

As much as 99 percent of global internet traffic today relies on a series of subsea fiber-optic cables around the world that are vulnerable to natural disasters and attacks. Chinese cable-cutting incidents have shown how easily they can be sabotaged.

Ganley is working on something called the Outernet, a constellation of 600 Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites that would make up…

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