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Taiwan intercepts ship with Chinese name suspected to have damaged underwater cable (www.taiwannews.com.tw)

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The Coast Guard Administration intercepted a Cameroon-registered container ship with a Chinese name after it was suspected of damaging an undersea cable north of Taiwan on Friday.

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[–] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 24 points 5 days ago (2 children)

No, that's not how the game is played.

You capture it, send the crew home (or dont) and the just say "what ship" every time you are asked. Or "we're working on returning it", ""its just being investigated for an unrelated reason", or the ever popular "we remember sending it last week, im sure it's on the way". All of which must be done while it's parked in a very obvious place with clearly nothing being done.

[–] Limonene@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I think the ship is worth less than the cable. Even if all the crew are Chinese spies, their lives are probably worth less to China than the value of successfully cutting the cable.

If I were Taiwan, I would put the whole crew on trial for espionage, and publicize it as much as possible.

[–] xep@fedia.io 3 points 4 days ago

If I were China I'd use something disposable for these tasks, too.

[–] Skunk@jlai.lu 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I like that strategy, when they reply that they can see the ship on the port public webcam just answer with the South Park Comcast guy saying "We're sorry". Then keep on "working on it" until next request.