A Chinese ship has been accused of severing deep sea data cables off the coast of Taiwan.
Last Friday, officials in Taipei discovered four cores of an international submarine cable were left ruptured early on 3 January.
These cables, located on Taiwan's northern coast, were used to transmit data to the American Telephone and Telegraph company in the United States.
According to Taiwan’s coast guard tracking data found that a Chinese owned Shunxing39 cargo vessel dropped anchor around the rupture site near the port of Keelung.
While sailing under the flag of Cameroon, officials in Taiwan pointed out the vessel is owned by Jie Yang Trading Ltd, which is registered in Hong Kong, and owned by a Chinese citizen, Guo Wenjie.
China has been accused of cable tampering before, back in October 2023 and November 2024, in the Baltic Sea.