The operation, dubbed Nordic Warden, uses sensor data do determine when shady vessels in the Baltic Sea approach areas of interest.

The Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) has initiated a sophisticated command system designed to surveil underwater infrastructure threats and keep tabs on Russia's covert maritime assets. This move comes in the wake of reported disruptions to a critical subsea cable in the Baltic Sea region.

Taiwan and China traded barbs over what the government in Taipei suspects was a Chinese-linked ship's damage to an undersea communications cable off the island's coast, an incident that has raised alarm bells on the island.

Taiwan has accused a Chinese-owned ship of severing a critical data cable off its northern coast on Friday. Officials in Taipei discovered that four cores of an international submarine cable, which transmits data to America’s AT&T, were left ruptured early on Jan 3.