Swedish police were invited aboard a Chinese vessel in the Baltic Sea on Thursday in order to observe a probe being carried out by Beijing into two severed undersea cables.
The telecom cables – one linking Finland and Germany, the other connecting Sweden to Lithuania – were damaged in mid-November off the coast of Denmark but in Swedish territorial waters.
The Chinese ship, the Yi Peng 3, had been tracked sailing above the cables at the time they were cut, and has remained anchored at the location since November 19.
