‘I would think that you would notice that you’re dragging an anchor behind you for hundreds of kilometers,’ says minister.

BRUSSELS — As the investigation into damage to Baltic Sea critical infrastructure continues, Finland’s Minister of European Affairs Anders Adlercreutz said it’s hard to believe sabotage to the undersea gas pipeline was accidental — or that it happened without Beijing’s knowledge.

“I’m not the sea captain. But I would think that you would notice that you’re dragging an anchor behind you for hundreds of kilometers,” Adlercreutz said in an interview Thursday in Brussels. “I think everything indicates that it was intentional. But of course, so far, nobody has admitted to it.”

  • @[email protected]English
    16•1 year ago

    So, I can’t easily find the name of the ship in Chinese, but it could possibly be a translation error during naming? New New is xīng xīng in pingying (romanized phonetic Chinese), which is also the same spelling as star… If whoever did the translation was bad at it and did it solely off of the phonetics or romanized spelling.

    • FuglyDuckEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      so… it’s Star Polar Bear? Huh. There goes a good joke. thanks for the information.

      • @quindracoEnglish
        5•1 year ago

        No, it’s Newnew.

        Or… well, on the ship itself it’s spelled New New, which is a lot saner and funnier than Newnew.

        • FuglyDuckEnglish
          2•1 year ago

          So I guess we know who used Google translate?