{"id":69681,"date":"2025-02-25T18:14:47","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T09:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/25\/taiwan-detains-chinese-crewed-cargo-ship-after-undersea-cable-damaged"},"modified":"2025-02-25T18:14:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T09:14:47","slug":"taiwan-detains-chinese-crewed-cargo-ship-after-undersea-cable-damaged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69681","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan detains Chinese-crewed cargo ship after undersea cable damaged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan\u2019s coastguard says it \u2018cannot be ruled out that it was a grey-zone intrusion by China\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan\u2019s coastguard has detained a cargo ship and its Chinese crew after an undersea cable in the Taiwan Strait was damaged on Tuesday, saying it cannot rule out the possibility it was a deliberate \u201cgrey zone\u201d act.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether the cause of the undersea cable breakage was intentional sabotage or a simple accident remains to be clarified by further investigation,\u201d the coastguard said in a statement. \u201cIt cannot be ruled out that it was a grey-zone intrusion by China.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/25\/taiwan-detains-chinese-crewed-cargo-ship-after-undersea-cable-damaged\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan\u2019s coastguard says it \u2018cannot be ruled out that it was a grey-zone intrusion by China\u2019Taiwan\u2019s coastguard has detained a cargo ship and its Chinese crew after an undersea cable in the Taiwan Strait was damaged on Tuesday, saying it cannot rule ou&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69682,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69681\/revisions\/69682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}