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Summary
Sweden is investigating the Chinese vessel Yi Peng 3 after it was tracked near two severed Baltic Sea data cables connecting Sweden-Lithuania and Finland-Germany, incidents suspected to be sabotage.
The cables were damaged within 24 hours, and Germany called it a likely act of “hybrid warfare.”
The ship, owned by a Chinese company, follows a similar 2023 case involving a Chinese vessel damaging a Baltic gas pipeline.
Germany, Sweden, Finland, and Lithuania expressed concerns, citing increased hybrid threats
It’s immaterial who pays them, the end result is that the product is more expensive to export to the country who levies the tariff. If everyone does them to one country at the same time because they did bad stuff, that’s a sanction.
When Europe sanctions Russia and China, they’re basically just sanctioning themselves.