European allies in the Baltic region are investigating how two fiber-optic data cables were severed earlier this week, with suspicion falling on a Chinese vessel in the area. Germany has said the incident was clearly sabotage.

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    1 day ago

    …no it isn’t, it’s anchored in the Kattegat. What’s it with Americans and geography.

    “The vessel was anchored in the Caribbean, ten miles east of Charleston” is what you sound like.

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        16 hours ago

        The publication is American. Either he knew better and the editor “corrected” him as to “not confuse” the audience or he didn’t, or didn’t care to double-check, which just means that VOA has no standards when it comes to their correspondents knowing geography. Or their editors, who should catch such obvious mistakes.