There was confusion and fear and it was unclear if the ship would take on water or if the Chinese would try to force their way on board. Philippine crew members prepared for that possibility and ...

At the same time, ever vigilant maritime open-source intelligence gatherers (people looking at the internet) spotted that the Yi Peng 3, a Chinese ... ship or company, we just never take much notice.

Representatives from Sweden, Finland, Germany accompanied Chinese officials to board a China-registered ship that was potentially involved in undersea cable sabotage in the Baltic Sea last month ...

Swedish police said on Thursday they had boarded the Yi Peng 3 vessel, which is at the center of an investigation into Baltic Sea cable breaches, at the invitation of the Chinese authorities.

China has allowed representatives from Germany ... The actions taken on board the ship on Thursday were not part of the Swedish-led preliminary investigation, the police added.

Underwater fiber-optic cables, carrying transactions worth trillions of dollars a day, are central to the U.S.-China tech war. WSJ explains the battle for influence beneath the waves. Illustration ...

Swedish police were invited aboard a Chinese vessel in the Baltic Sea on Thursday in order to observe a probe being carried out by Beijing into two severed undersea cables. The telecom cables ...