It seems that China might be getting into the hybrid warfare game like it’s neighbor Russia. Last week an undersea cable to Taiwan was cut and the suspected ship is owned by a Chinese businessman.
Officials in Taipei discovered that four cores of an international submarine cable, which transmits data to America’s AT&T, were left ruptured early on Jan 3.
Tracking data revealed the Shunxing39 cargo vessel had dropped its anchor around the rupture site near the port of Keelung, according to Taiwan’s coast guard.
The Shunxing39 sails under the flag of Cameroon, but officials in Taiwan have pointed out it is owned by Jie Yang Trading Ltd, which is registered in Hong Kong, and owned by Chinese citizen Guo Wenjie…
“This is another case of a very worrying global trend of sabotage against subsea cables,” a senior Taiwanese national security official told the…
