NANGAN, Taiwan (AP) In the past month, bed and breakfast owner Chen Yu-lin had to tell his guests he couldn't provide them with the internet. Others living on Matsu, one of Taiwan’s outlying islands closer to neighboring China, had to struggle with paying electricity bills, making a doctor's appointment or receiving a package.
Residents of Taiwan s outlying islands near the Chinese coast have been without the internet for the past month. Taiwan s National Communications Commission blames two Chinese vessels for cutting the cables.
Taiwan s government stopped short of calling it a deliberate act on the part of Beijing, and there was no direct evidence to show the Chinese ships were responsible.