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taiwanese prosecutors formally charged the captain of the chinese-crewed ship hong tai 58 with deliberately severing a subsea communications cable by anchor drop in february. cable damage is usually written off as accident; a criminal charge asserting deliberate targeting is rare and moves undersea infrastructure sabotage from suspicion into a courtroom. it lands in the same cycle that seventeen cables through the contested bab el-mandeb are flagged as a single point of failure for intercontinental internet traffic.

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