Four EU countries inspect Chinese vessel after undersea cables ruptured in November

The Yi Peng 3 has been anchored in the Kattegat Sea for a month while diplomats in Stockholm and Beijing discussed access to the vessel.

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00:00Representatives from Germany, Finland and Denmark have boarded a Chinese cargo ship

00:07believed to be connected to the rupture of two data cables in the Baltic Sea in November.

00:13Swedish police and Chinese officials were also part of the inspection of the Yipeng-3

00:18vessel which is anchored in international waters between Sweden and Denmark.

00:23Denmark's foreign minister said the visit was supposed to take place on Wednesday but

00:27was called off due to bad weather.

00:58The two cables, one running from Finland to Germany and the other from Lithuania to Sweden

01:04were both damaged in Swedish waters.

01:07The Wall Street Journal reported in November that investigators suspected the Yipeng-3

01:12had deliberately severed the fiber-optic cables by dragging its anchor along the seabed.

01:18The Yipeng-3 has been anchored in the Kattegat Sea for a month while diplomats in Stockholm

01:23and Beijing discussed access to the vessel.

01:26It was being monitored by several vessels including those belonging to the Danish Navy.

01:32Chinese authorities said in November they had no information about the ship but denied

01:37any responsibility for the damage to the cables.