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From what I remember reading about the topic, China and their Great Firewall has given rise to an environment that promotes Chinese services, Chinese infrastructure, and Chinese content (ignoring government censorship and approval right now for the sake of this argument). While it's not quite there yet, this points in the direction of a separate Chinese Internet that would still be usable by Chinese should China get cut off from the rest of the world (whether it be by their own decision or not).

Some person (that I forgot, since I read about this some time ago) made the prediction that other national entities might inevitably fall into that same pattern, for reasons that would include maintaining quality of service (bandwidth), safeguarding their physical network infrastructure (connectivity), or protection from countries that purposefully conduct cyber attacks on other nations (security).

There's a lot of cable trunk lines still going around, and if it came down to it, it's not particularly hard to physically sever the connections rid of them. Attacking the network infrastructure between, say, France and Germany in would be a lot harder, as it would physically be on European Union soil, as opposed to a five billion mile cable stretching across the middle of the ocean.