Sweden asks for China’s cooperation over cables cut while Chinese ship nearby

The Chinese ship, the bulk carrier Yi Peng 3, is anchored in the sea of Kattegat, near the city of Granaa in Jutland, Denmark (Ritzau Scanpix via AP)

Sweden has formally asked China to cooperate in explaining the recent rupture of two data cables on the Baltic Sea bed in an area where a China-flagged vessel had been sighted.

The two cables, one running from Finland to Germany and the other from Lithuania to Sweden, were both damaged in Swedish waters last week, in an area where the Yi Peng 3, a China-flagged bulk carrier, was seen.