China quizzed over damage to Baltic telecoms cables

Undersea cables linking Estonia to Finland and Sweden are suspected of being sabotaged at a time and place when only Chinese and Russian ships were present.
The cables were damaged on 8 October but it has taken a while for the investigation to conclude they were probably not accidents. “It has been confirmed that the cable has been damaged through external force or tampering,” said an update from the Swedish government yesterday. “The damage did not affect the function of the c