Taiwan sets up key monitoring zone for 'damage of submarine cable of heavy cargo ship'

The Taiwanese military has taken measures, including adjusting the monitoring area, as concerns over national security have grown over the damage to Taiwan's undersea cable by the Chinese cargo ship "Shunxing 39."

Taiwan's media, including the Free Times, reported that Taiwan's military will set up a key monitoring zone in waters where submarine cables are installed in the future, citing an official from Taiwan's defense ministry.

The official stressed that the area will be monitored through radars and others and that monitoring and control of maritime targets will be strengthened.

Taiwan's Defense Ministry's Joint Information Research Center also said that undersea cables belong to Taiwan's core infrastructure facilities and considered preparing measures such as preliminary warnings for suspected ships.

Earlier on the 3rd, Taiwanese authorities pointed out that the movement of a Chinese background cargo ship that damaged an undersea cable near the port of Jilin in northern Taiwan is a "gray zone tactic form of overseas hostile forces."

Gray zone tactics are tactics involving non-traditional means, rather than traditional military conflicts, in a way that affects or pressures opponents while avoiding private clashes.