A court in Taiwan sentenced a Chinese ship captain to three years in jail on Thursday for intentionally damaging undersea communications cables.
The captain, identified by his surname Wang, was detained in February after a submarine cable between Taiwan and the Penghu Archipelago was severed.
Penghu, also known as the Pescadores Islands, is a cluster of about 90 small islands in the Strait of Taiwan, roughly 25 nautical miles west of Taiwan’s main island. The islands are administered as a county of Taiwan. They are a significant tourist destination, renowned for their natural beauty.
Taiwan is heavily dependent on two dozen undersea cables for telecommunications with the outside world, and China has been waging a campaign of quiet sabotage against those cables for
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