Mithil Aggarwal is a Hong Kong-based reporter/producer for NBC News.
HONG KONG — First the Baltics, now Taiwan. This month saw the latest in a spate of incidents in which crucial undersea cables connecting U.S. allies have been damaged or severed. Some have been cast as acts of sabotage, pinning blame on Russia and China amid heightened geopolitical tensions.
is stepping up patrols of Baltic Sea cables that provide power and enable almost all intercontinental communication, including the internet. Members of the defense bloc with access to the Baltic Sea were set to meet Tuesday in Helsinki to discuss regional security threats including Russian cable sabotage. The damage from the Jan. 3 incident did not disrupt communications in Taiwan, as the data was routed to other cables.
is also deploying at least two ships to the Baltic Sea area for surveillance. While the alliance’s heightened alert mostly involves Russia’s “shadow fleet” of smuggling ships, Chinese-owned vessels have come under suspicion as well, including in November when one freighter was detained for weeks in Danish waters after two fiber-optic cables were damaged.
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