The Taiwanese Coast Guard said they had detained a cargo ship with its Chinese crew on Tuesday after cutting underwater connections off the island.

This incident is the last in a series of incidents of interruption of Taiwanese marine cables, which referred to natural reasons or blamed on Chinese ships.

The Ministry of Digital Affairs explained that the Taiwanese company "Chonghua Telikum" informed the cable interruption between Bengho, a group of strategic islands in the Taiwan Strait, and the island early Tuesday.

The Coast Guard added that the ship "Hongtay", which was raising the Togo flag, was subjected to the region and was taken to Taiwan, noting that "the incident is dealt with according to the principles of national security (...) and will determine whether the cause of the seventeenth cable is a sabotage Blessed or just a simple accident, after more investigations. "

The Taiwanese Coast Guard said that he was on board Hongai, which was raising a suitable flag, eight Chinese citizens, which are funded by China.