{"id":16012,"date":"2025-01-07T12:49:20","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T12:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16012"},"modified":"2025-01-07T12:49:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T12:49:27","slug":"chinese-ship-severs-undersea-cables-around-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16012","title":{"rendered":"Chinese ship \u2018severs undersea cables around Taiwan\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/world-news\/2024\/12\/01\/china-russia-central-bank-ukraine-taiwan-us-sanctions\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Taiwan<\/a>&nbsp;has accused a Chinese-owned ship of severing a critical data cable off its northern coast on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officials in Taipei discovered that four cores of an international submarine cable, which transmits data to America\u2019s AT&amp;T, were left ruptured early on Jan 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tracking data revealed the Shunxing39 cargo vessel had dropped its anchor around the rupture site near the port of Keelung, according to Taiwan\u2019s coast guard.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Another Chinese vessel, the Yi Peng 3, was accused of similar tactics in the Baltic in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Investigators believe the Chinese-registered bulk carrier deliberately severed two key cables by dragging its anchor along the seabed for more than 100 miles in a \u201csabotage\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2020\/08\/21\/defence-review-prioritise-protecting-undersea-cables-russian\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">orchestrated by Russia<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Repeated incidents have caused concern among Western nations that Russia, with the help of China, is engaging in what the White House described as \u201chybrid warfare\u201d, an accusation that the Kremlin denies.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/chinese-ship-severs-undersea-cables-202527317.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/chinese-ship-severs-undersea-cables-202527317.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Taiwan has accused a Chinese-owned ship of severing a critical data cable off its northern coast on Friday.<br \/>\nOfficials in Taipei discovered that four cores of an international submarine cable, which transmits data to America\u2019s AT&#038;T, were left ruptured early on Jan 3.<\/p>\n<p>Tracking data revealed the Shunxing39 cargo vessel had dropped its anchor around the rupture site near the port of Keelung, according to Taiwan\u2019s coast guard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Another Chinese vessel, the Yi Peng 3, was accused of similar tactics in the Baltic in November.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators believe the Chinese-registered bulk carrier deliberately severed two key cables by dragging its anchor along the seabed for more than 100 miles in a \u201csabotage\u201d orchestrated by Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Repeated incidents have caused concern among Western nations that Russia, with the help of China, is engaging in what the White House described as \u201chybrid warfare\u201d, an accusation that the Kremlin denies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/chinese-ship-severs-undersea-cables-202527317.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[729,336,2114,89,1915,314,333,2127],"class_list":["post-16012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-asia","tag-attack","tag-cable","tag-china","tag-east-asia","tag-international-relations","tag-taiwan","tag-under-sea-cables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16012"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16014,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16012\/revisions\/16014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}