China is asked to cooperate by Sweden over the severed cables.

China is asked to cooperate

China is asked to cooperate by Sweden over the severed cables.

After a Chinese ship was connected to the accidents, Sweden formally requested China. Cooperation in an inquiry into damage to two cables in the Baltic Sea.

On November 17 and 18, the cables—one connecting Finland to Germany and the other connecting Sweden to Lithuania. Were damaged in Swedish territorial seas in the Baltic Sea.

The Yi Peng Three, a Chinese ship that is currently stranded in international waters outside Denmark. Is thought to have been in the region at the time.

China has denied any sabotage involvement.

On November 15, the Yi Peng Three departed the port of Ust-Luga, west of St Petersburg, Russia.

Arelion cable, which connects Lithuania to the Swedish island of Gotland, was destroyed early on November 17.

The C-Lion 1 cable, which connected the German port of Rostock. With the Finnish city of Helsinki, was cut the next day.

The Yi Peng Three may have passed over the wires around the time each was severed. According to information from ship tracking websites.

Investigators believe the ship intentionally destroyed the cables by dropping and dragging. Its anchor over the seabed for about 160 kilometers (100 miles). According to the Wall Street Journal.

The Danish navy is keeping an eye on the ship, which has been in the Kattegat strait since November 19. Strait is a route between Sweden and Denmark that links the Baltic Sea to the North Sea.

The Swedish government has “made an official request to China to co-operate with Swedish. Authorities in order to generate clarity on what has transpired. Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said at a press conference on Thursday.

He stated, “Even though we expect China to comply with our request. We think it is very vital to find out exactly what transpired.”

Though he clarified that he was not making any kind of “accusation.

He also restated a previous request that the ship return to Swedish seas so that it may be searched as part of the investigation.

Increased tension in the Baltic Sea and several instances involving damage to underwater. Infrastructure have occurred since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

The two Nord Stream gas pipelines between Russia and western Europe were damaged by a series of explosions in September 2022. And an underwater communications cable connecting Estonia and Sweden was damaged in October 2023.

Boris Pistorius, the German defense minister, stated last week that “nobody believes that these cables were severed accidently” in reference to the most recent incident, but he did not name the person he thought was at fault.

Suggestions that Russia may have been engaged have been dismissed as “absurd” and “laughable”.