Event 686

{
  "category": "Uncategorized",
  "confidence": "Low",
  "confidence_rationale": "Multiple direct quotes reference cable destruction and suspicions of sabotage, with specific vessel named and statements regarding rapid diplomatic activity in response.",
  "countries": [
    "Finland",
    "China",
    "Russia"
  ],
  "country": "Finland",
  "defense_prep": {},
  "description": "Shortly after a Chinese bulk carrier allegedly destroyed two cables in the Baltic Sea, Chinese and Russian top officials met for their first session of a joint body for Arctic shipping along the Northern Sea Route. Investigations and suspicions of sabotage on Baltic subsea infrastructure persist.",
  "event_time_utc": "2024-12-05T12:00:00Z",
  "evidence": [
    "News report links a Chinese bulk carrier to destruction of two Baltic Sea cables, investigated as sabotage.",
    "Russian and Chinese officials rapidly held talks on Arctic shipping cooperation following the incident."
  ],
  "evidence_quotes": [
    "Only few days after a Chinese bulk carrier destroyed two cables in the Baltic Sea in what appears as an act of sabotage, top officials from Beijing and Moscow sat down for their first meeting in a joint cooperation body for the Northern Sea Route.",
    "The meeting for the joint structure was held only few days after the incidents with the Yi Yang, a 225 meter long Chinese bulk carrier is believed to have damaged to underwater communications cables in the Baltic Sea.",
    "Police in the affected countries suspect sabotage."
  ],
  "evidence_urls": [
    "https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/beijing-and-moscow-tune-in-for-more-arctic-shipping/421664"
  ],
  "extra": {
    "category_raw": "Ru-China Strategic Cooperation",
    "extra": {
      "extra": {
        "extra": {
          "evidence": [
            "News report links a Chinese bulk carrier to destruction of two Baltic Sea cables, investigated as sabotage.",
            "Russian and Chinese officials rapidly held talks on Arctic shipping cooperation following the incident."
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "follow_up_by_country": [],
  "headline": "Beijing and Moscow tune in for more Arctic shipping",
  "location_text": "Baltic Sea",
  "media_assets": [
    {
      "description": "Screenshot capture",
      "type": "screenshot",
      "url": "/media/event_686_1763935019_b05c1a28.jpg"
    }
  ],
  "notes": "??Russia-China Arctic shipping agreements signed",
  "schema_version": "v1",
  "screenshot_count": 1,
  "sources": [
    "https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/beijing-and-moscow-tune-in-for-more-arctic-shipping/421664"
  ],
  "url": "https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/beijing-and-moscow-tune-in-for-more-arctic-shipping/421664"
}

{
  "5th Column of Russians Inside (which countries)": "",
  "Attack Type": "RU-China Strategic Cooperation",
  "Borders Including Sea, Air,  Violation or Sabotage (which countries)": "",
  "Continuous? (e.g. Jammers)": "",
  "Country (FI;EE;LV;LT;PL;BSR;Air)\nSeparated by Semicolon": "BSR",
  "Date": "5-Dec-24",
  "Defense Prep Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL)": "",
  "Defense Prep Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL) REF LINK": "",
  "Follow-Up Link?  (FI,EE,LV,LT,PL, BSR, Air)": "",
  "Follow-Up NOTES": "",
  "Follow-Up incl. Investigation, Prosecution?  (FI,EE,LV,LT,PL, BSR, Air)": "",
  "Latitude, Longitude (WGS84, Decimal Degrees)": "",
  "NOTES": "??Russia-China Arctic shipping agreements signed",
  "Political Disruptions w/ Laws to Favor Kremlin (which countries)": "",
  "Russian-Belarus Terrorist Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL)": "??Russia-China Arctic shipping agreements signed",
  "Russian-Belarus Terrorist Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL) REF LINK": "https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/beijing-and-moscow-tune-in-for-more-arctic-shipping/421664",
  "Screen Snapshot": "",
  "Screen Snapshots": "",
  "Type Dropdown": "",
  "Where?\n(Air, Land, Sea)": ""
}