Accident contested by Taipei to a ship owned by Mandarina
Beijing defines “political manipulation” the accusations of the Taiwanese authorities who reported that they had caught the cargo ‘Hongtai’ of Chinese property in the stairway of the submarine cable n.3 for the TLC connecting Taiwan to Penghu. “Every year in the world it occurs about a hundred accidents of damage to cables in;;; Fiber optical submarine”, part of “common” episodes that occurred at sea, commented Zhu Fenglan, spokesman for the office of Taiwan’s business of the central government.
The ship, together with the crew of 8 Chinese sailors, was affected and escorted in the port of Tainan for investigations.
