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dalton99a

(81,064 posts)
Wed Mar 8, 2023, 08:24 AM Mar 2023

Taiwan suspects Chinese ships cut islands' internet cables

Source: Associated Press

NANGAN, Taiwan (AP) — In the past month, bed and breakfast owner Chen Yu-lin had to tell his guests he couldn’t provide them with the internet.

Others living on Matsu, one of Taiwan’s outlying islands closer to neighboring China, had to struggle with paying electricity bills, making a doctor’s appointment or receiving a package.

For connecting to the outside world, Matsu’s 14,000 residents rely on two submarine internet cables leading to Taiwan’s main island. The National Communications Commission, citing the island’s telecom service, blamed two Chinese ships for cutting the cables. It said a Chinese fishing vessel is suspected of severing the first cable some 50 kilometers (31 miles) out at sea. Six days later, on Feb. 8, a Chinese cargo ship cut the second, NCC said.

Taiwan’s government stopped short of calling it a deliberate act on the part of Beijing, and there was no direct evidence to show the Chinese ships were responsible.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/matsu-taiwan-internet-cables-cut-china-65f10f5f73a346fa788436366d7a7c70

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machoneman

(3,951 posts)
1. Oh, gee, maybe it was the Tooth Fairy? Man, Taiwan needs to fight fire with fire and screw up some..
Wed Mar 8, 2023, 08:48 AM
Mar 2023

level of Chinese communication links as retribution. Not doing so encourages more barbary by the Reds.

yaesu

(8,020 posts)
2. The West should never allow china to own infustructure that we rely on yet we gladly
Wed Mar 8, 2023, 09:13 AM
Mar 2023

sell our companies and cables to them, it will come back to bite US in the ass.

 

Alexander Of Assyria

(7,839 posts)
4. 99% accidental, if anyone cares to read beyond the headline!?
Wed Mar 8, 2023, 10:18 AM
Mar 2023

It’s like everything than can be is turned into a giant white balloon, testing the response.

 

Alexander Of Assyria

(7,839 posts)
3. The headline forgot to mention ...accidental....it happens. But...best the war drums...any drum will do.
Wed Mar 8, 2023, 10:18 AM
Mar 2023

No direct evidence…but direct speculation contrary to the probability.

If one admits one has NO EVIDENCE, then any conclusion IS 100% speculation…if words and logic still have meaning.

Torchlight

(3,232 posts)
7. Being prone to rule something out due to bias confirmation seems as
Wed Mar 8, 2023, 12:29 PM
Mar 2023

specious as accepting something with full faith due to bias confirmation.

Grins

(7,128 posts)
5. Shades of the Kennedy-Nixon debates!!
Wed Mar 8, 2023, 11:31 AM
Mar 2023

Where a topic was Quemoy and Matsu off the coast of mainland China. Mentioned and forgotten by election day.

Those of a "certain" age will remember. For the rest of you - Google!

SharonAnn

(13,766 posts)
6. So glad to "Quemoy" and "Matsu".
Wed Mar 8, 2023, 12:06 PM
Mar 2023

No one o know seems to remember those names and the bellicose Kennedy-Nixon debate about them.

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