⚡️🇨🇳 NEW - China cuts the cord: its "new Internet" is now live

China has just launched a digital highway so fast that it renders our usual connections obsolete. More than just a technical feat, this is a strategic move that could well redraw the map of power in global cyberspace.

After a decade of titanic work, Beijing has officially launched the China Environment for Network Innovation, or CENI. Imagine a sprawling network of 55,000 kilometers of fiber optics connecting 40 of the country's largest cities. This is not simply access to the Internet as we know it, but rather an open-air laboratory, a platform designed to forge the network technologies of tomorrow, far removed from Western standards.

The network simultaneously supports 128 heterogeneous networks (architectures that are incompatible with each other) and can run 4,096 parallel tests. For researchers, it's like Christmas: everyone can tinker with their prototype without disturbing their neighbors. And the icing on the cake is that transmission costs are 60% cheaper than previous solutions.