Amid U.S. pressure to move Vietnam's submarine cable plans away from China

Marketscreener The United States is urging Vietnam to avoid Chinese cable-laying company HMN Technologies and other Chinese companies in its plans to build 10 new submarine cables by 2030, according to sources familiar with the talks. Vietnam's five major aging submarine connections that link it to the global Internet have suffered repeated failures, making new cables one of the government's top priorities. Since January, U.S. officials and comp…