Sweden has sent a formal request for China to cooperate with its investigations into the severing of two undersea data cables on the Baltic Sea bed. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.

Sweden's prime minister says his government has formally asked China to cooperate in explaining the recent rupture of data cables on the Baltic Sea bed in an area where a China-flagged vessel was sighted.

Sweden has sent a formal request to China to cooperate with an investigation into suspected ... The C-Lion1 submarine telecommunications cable being laid to the bottom of the Baltic Sea in this file image from October 2015. - Heikki Saukkomaa/Lehtikuva ...