Was it an "accident" like the Wuhan Institute of Virology Covid-19 virus lab leak? Was China trying to help Putin the Terrible by doing his dirty work?
Why does this admission come so late and presumably only after criminal investigations by Finland and Estonia?
Will China be held accountable and pay for the damage?
Notice, there seems to be some confusion about whether this "accident" happened in late 2022 or 2023. This confusion is probably due to two events: Nord Stream Pipeline sabotage 9/26/2022 and this one.
According to Wikipedia it occurred on 10/8/2023 at 2:00 and "On 10 October 2023, the Finnish government announced that the damage to the pipeline may have been deliberate and caused by "external activity". The leak is being investigated by the Finnish Border Guard and the Finnish Security Intelligence Service. Norwegian seismological institute NORSAR reported that it detected a "probable explosion" 40 km north of Paldiski (roughly where Balticconnector and Nord Stream intersect) on the 8 October at 01:20 local time. A few days later investigators stated the damage "appears to have been mechanical, not an explosion"."
"Beijing has admitted that a Chinese-owned ship damaged a critical Baltic Sea gas pipeline running between Estonia and Finland last October, but says it was an accident.
The South China Morning Post understands that the Chinese authorities conducted an internal investigation and recently communicated the results to governments in the European countries. ..."
"... The BalticConnector pipeline was ripped apart by a large anchor, which Finnish police said was from a Hong Kong-flagged container vessel named ‘NewNew Polar Bear’. ..."
China Says HK Ship Destroyed Baltic Gas Pipeline by Accident "China has admitted that the anchor of a Hong Kong-flagged vessel ripped apart an important gas pipeline from Finland to Estonia in the Baltic Sea in late 2022"
Underwater damage photographed in October 2023.
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