quite a lot of complex interlinked issues there..
been reading about this situation for some years now, including a plan (now stalled, or maybe even deployed without fuss?) for various East and SE Asian nations to add an extra backbone to the Internet using IPV6.
Various stories have arisen from this including an outlandish claim that it was so the Asians could connect their kitchen appliances to TCP/IP networks :you_crazy
Although there may be limited use for this in professional catering I know of people in Malaysia (one of the most high-tech SE Asian nations) in 2006 who would far rather still select their food at an open air market and cook on an outdoor gas ring (even with the risk of occasional explosions due to DIY cylinder hookups, and roaming feral bengal cats stealing the fish and meat!)
there also seems to be an amount Sinophobia and sour grapes in many of these reports from the US. (China already has control of the market for internet hardware; take a look at your router and other comms hardware and where it is made)
I can’t see what the threat is from what appears to be a “Chinese DNS” – if anything this would boost the internet by creating millions of extra users, and AFAIK could be transparently bolted on to the Western DNS system (which is what I think the Asian nations were planning).
In fact, why not expand it to permit use of other non-Western alphabets?
They could claim “it could be used to boost censorship” or limit access to non-govt sites but any country could do this.
Not every Chinese speaker is in mainland China anyway.
the internet can be and is just as easily filtered or censored by Western countries these days; often at a corporate or ISP level.
IMO it is far more likely the Yanks will balkanise the Internet by trying to squeeze more money out of it by removing “net neutrality”; they have already balkanised themselves in other ways in the high-tech world such as unilateral allocation of radio frequencies, comms protocols etc…
