China rejects 'baseless' claim of damaging submarine cables near Taiwan
Taiwan earlier claims Beijing linked ship entered its waters, damaged submarine cable

ANKARA
China on Wednesday rejected the Taiwanese claim of damaging submarine cables and called it a "baseless" assumption.
Chen Binhua, a spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, said that there are over a hundred incidents of submarine optical cable damage globally each year, which are common maritime accidents, the daily Global Times reported.
"The DPP (Democratic Progressive Party) authorities made baseless assumptions and deliberately exaggerated the incident as a so-called ‘gray zone threat,’ despite the basic facts and accident liability remaining unclear. This fully demonstrates the DPP's unscrupulous and relentless approach in manipulating anti-China narratives by any means necessary," Chen said.
Earlier, Taiwan claimed that China-linked ship entered its waters and damaged an undersea submarine cable.
Taipei said it was not a simple accident but a "gray zone threat" from Beijing.
China considers Taiwan a “breakaway province,” while Taipei has maintained its independence since 1949.
*Writing by Islamuddin Sajid
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