China and Russia look like the prime suspects for severed cables in the Baltic and Taiwan Strait, Beijing and the war in Ukraine, the tech race takes off, and much more.

Subsea cables are especially vulnerable to sabotage or even exploitation, as they are extremely long, difficult to monitor, ...

A third fibre optic cable linking the islands to Taiwan that previously malfunctioned is also still not working. Advt There is growing concern in Taiwan over the security of its cables after a ...

Taiwan's authorities reported that submarine cables connecting Taiwan to its Matsu Islands, which are home to about 14,000 ...

TAIPEI -- Taiwan's remaining undersea cable link to the Matsu Islands near China was completely disconnected early Wednesday, the government said, adding to a string of such issues and raising ...

Two ageing subsea telecoms cables serving Taiwan's Matsu archipelago have stopped functioning, with the outages blamed on "natural deterioration", Taipei communication officials said on Wednesday.

Taiwan's Ministry of Digital Affairs said on Wednesday that undersea cables to the Matsu Islands, which lie close to the coast of China, were disconnected due to "natural deterioration" and back-up ...

Credit: AFP The incident marks the fourth submarine cable disruption in 2025 alone, compared to three incidents each in 2023 and 2024. The Taiwan-Matsu cables, designated as critical ...

China has denied involvement in the January cable damage in Taiwan and investigations into the incidents in the Baltic Sea are still under way. While these cable episodes highlight the vulnerability ...

The cutting of a submarine cable outside of the Keelung Harbor earlier this month has led to renewed concerns about Chinese attempts to disrupt telecommunications in Taiwan. The disruption ...

Taiwan, which China views as its own territory, said a ship owned by a Hong Kong company but registered both in Cameroon and Tanzania, damaged a cable to the north of the island earlier this month ...

On Friday, Newsweek reported that in 2020 a team of engineers at Lishui University, in a coastal province opposite Taiwan ... hit a cable.” When host Ivan Trushkin asked him why do it?, Mr. Federov ...