oh yeah, about that. the leading finnish newspaper (helsingin sanomat) sent its china correspondent digging into the ship's owner's business. they get ahold of some manager who straight up lies about the crew being all chinese and that there was nothing out of the ordinary on the ship. the manager ceases to answer questions after a while. now that's all relatively normal, but tracking down their office is where it gets weird. the office is in a building owned by the army. some of the higher floors are "rented for businesses" but the rest belong to the army. they can't find anyone form the company to talk to. when the journo tries to talk to one of the neighbors, some soldiers show up and demand to "check their phone" aka tell 'em to gtfo or else. so, all in all, it looks like china is quite involved in all this and is far from neutral. worriesome news since european leaders have a massive lack of balls and spines. paywalled source:   art-2000010850988.html
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