FCC moves to sever Chinese telecoms from US internet backbone

The FCC's proposed expansion from banning Chinese carriers' retail services to barring them from operating US data centers and interconnecting with US carriers represents a qualitative escalation: Washington is now targeting the underlying internet infrastructure layer, not just consumer-facing services. China Mobile, China Telecom, and China Unicom face potential full exit from the US market. The structural implication is that the US-China internet is moving toward hard segmentation at the infrastructure level — a precursor to a bifurcated global internet architecture where interconnection itself becomes a national security instrument.