Summary
China expressed willingness to cooperate with Sweden’s investigation into the severing of two Baltic Sea data cables on November 17-18, near where a Chinese-flagged vessel, Yi Peng 3, was sighted.
Sweden has formally requested China’s collaboration and asked the ship to move to Swedish waters for inspection.
The cables, linking Finland-Germany and Sweden-Lithuania, have been repaired. Authorities from Sweden, Finland, Lithuania, and Germany are investigating, with Germany suspecting sabotage.
Russia dismissed accusations of involvement as “absurd.” China stated it is in active communication with Sweden.
It’s Beijing’s openness that is why this is what I’m speculating. I think they would be a lot less willing to cooperate if they had sanctioned this. But I’m no expert on international geopolitics, so… 🤷
They could just be trying to seem cooperative and uninvolved, though, right? 🤷♂️
They don’t have the technology the USA have for splicing underwater cables so this would be a great opportunity to tap into the cables with the pretense of helping to fix them.
The synopsis says the cables are already repaired, and it take more than a random merchant vessel to repair underwater cables.