Sweden says China denied request for prosecutors to board ship linked to severed cables www.theguardian.com/world/202…

Sweden has accused China of denying a request for Swedish prosecutors to board a Chinese ship that has been linked to the cutting of two undersea cables in the Baltic despite Beijing pledging “cooperation” with regional authorities.

The Yi Peng 3 left the waters it had been anchored in since last month on Saturday – despite an ongoing investigation.

The ship was tracked sailing over the two fibre-optic cables, one between Sweden and Lithuania, and the other linking Helsinki and Germany, at around the time that they were cut on 17 and 18 November in Swedish territorial waters close to the Swedish islands of Gotland and Öland.