Finland seized an oil tanker after the latest in a series of disruptions to undersea infrastructure.

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The country’s prime minister said the incident, the latest in a series of disruptions to undersea infrastructure, underscored the danger of a so-called Russian shadow fleet.

At least Finland is fighting for the good of humanity.

  • Pavel Chichikov@lemm.eeEnglish
    161·
    1 day ago

    What does China even stand to gain from this behavior? Like, what do they have against Finland or Scandinavia in general? Is this something to do with Ukraine?

    • sus@programming.dev
      231·
      1 day ago

      This ship is not really chinese. It’s registered to the cook islands, seems to be owned by an indian company, and the captain is georgian. It turns out that the nation of origin doesn’t have absolute control over all the actions of its citizens.

      Though if a chinese ship gets seized in international waters, that would be convenient ‘precedent’ for china to start seizing other ships in international waters in the south china sea