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report in China. They put up a Flag of Togo but they are all Chinese Nationals on board. [Taipei, Taiwan CNN — Taiwan’s coast guard detained a cargo ship and its Chinese crew on Tuesday and said it was investigating whether the vessel had deliberately cut an undersea internet cable, in the latest possible damage to the island’s communication lines. The Togo-flagged vessel suspected of damaging the cable – which connected Taiwan to its outlying Penghu Islands – was crewed by eight Chinese nationals, Taiwan’s coast guard said in a statement. The Hong Tai had been lingering near the cable in waters off the southwestern coast of Taiwan since Saturday evening and did not respond to multiple broadcasts from Taiwan’s coast guard, the statement added. Shortly after the ship dropped anchor in the early hours of Tuesday, Taiwan’s telecom company Chunghwa Telecom detected that the cable had been disconnected. The coast guard said it intercepted and boarded the vessel, before escorting it back to a port in the city of Tainan for investigation. Taiwanese authorities said they could not rule out the possibility of a Chinese “gray zone operation,” a coercive or subversive act that falls below the threshold of war.] https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/25/a...hnk/index.html [Taiwan’s coastguard has detained a cargo ship and its Chinese crew after an undersea cable in the Taiwan Strait was damaged on Tuesday, saying it cannot rule out the possibility it was a deliberate “grey zone” act. “Whether the cause of the undersea cable breakage was intentional sabotage or a simple accident remains to be clarified by further investigation,” the coastguard said in a statement. “It cannot be ruled out that it was a grey-zone intrusion by China.” “Grey zone” refers to an act of hostile interference which does not reach the threshold of warfare.] https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-cable-damaged Last edited by arista; 07-03-2025 at 12:03 PM. |
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