Lithuania has decided to expel from the country three employees of the Chinese embassy, because they are accused of being involved in a sabotage case. Specifically, two undersea fiber optic telecommunications data cables were cut in mid-November in the Baltic Sea in Swedish territorial waters. One of these cables connected the Swedish island of Gotland with Lithuania. Sweden has launched an investigation into sabotage. Suspicion points to a Chinese ship, the “Yi Peng 3”, which, according to marine traffic monitoring points, passed over the cables when they were cut. Today, Lithuania’s foreign ministry said in a statement that “three staff members of the Mission of the People’s Republic of China have been declared unwelcome in the country.” The ministry did not give specific reasons for the deportations, citing only “activities that violate the Vienna Convention and the Law of the Republic of Lithuania.” On Wednesday, Lithuania announced it was forming a joint team of investigators with Sweden and Finland to work on the case of the mutilated […]
Source: News Beast
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