Chinese Ship Suspected of Undersea Cable Sabotage Detained in 'NATO Lake'

Newsweek ^ | Nov 20, 2024 | Brendan Cole AND John Feng

[McGruff]

A Chinese vessel has been implicated in what has been described as the sabotage of undersea telecom cables in the Baltic Sea, a body of water dubbed the "NATO Lake" due to its location between alliance members.

The Yi Peng 3 had passed close to both cables around the time each was cut on Sunday and Monday, according to maritime tracking group Marine Traffic. The vessel was then followed by the Danish Navy, according to open-source intelligence analysts.

"Ship suspected of damaging comms cables x 2 in Baltic Sea has been detained by Danish Navy," posted OSINT account auonsson on Bluesky, which tracks vessels in the Baltic. The post said that it was "anchored just outside Danish territory with patrol/dive Y311 SØLØVEN vessel guarding her."

[AAABEST]

China...wut?

[McGruff]

[marktwain]

It appears China wants to keep the war going on, perhaps to escatate it between Europe and Russia.

Makes sense. China has been the primary beneficiary of the Ukraine-Russian war.

[Wuli]

Hired by Putin to throw suspicion off him.

[HYPOCRACY]

WW3 is shaping up nicely.

[TheThirdRuffian]

Trying to stir up trouble between Russia and NATO, its two long term future enemies.

China is extremely racist and wants white people dead.

[PGR88]

Weird that China would get involved in this. Especially now everything going on in the Baltic is being watched very closely

Something doesn’t add up.

[Vendome]

I don’t understand how you cut a cable.

You have to cut through a minimum of three layers of protection and I don’t think using an anchor to trawl over it would work

[Pol-92064]

156.800 MHz

[subterfuge]

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[subterfuge]

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[subterfuge]

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[jimbug]

Find this ship and put it on the bottom.

[marktwain]

I don’t think using an anchor to trawl over it would work

Depends whether the "anchor" has a cutting mechanism on it.

[McGruff]

Link doesn’t work but would be useful information.

[ComputerGuy]

stmf

[McGruff]

The U.K. newspaper Financial Times reported that investigators of the severed cables are looking into the movements of the Chinese bulk carrier Yi Peng 3, which was en route to Egypt's Port Said from the Russian port of Ust-Luga. Social media reports said that the vessel had a Russian captain, although this has not been independently confirmed.

[hanamizu]

China is extremely racist and wants white people dead.

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Now, let’s be fair, the Chinese are equal-opportunity racists. They feel they are superior to anyone not Chinese. They consider themselves the rightful center of the world. Hence their name 中国, Middle Kingdom.