Anonymous ID: f99f1c March 30, 2021, 8:34 p.m. No.13334388   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>4441

Good read lots of links

 

https://humanevents.com/2021/03/30/red-dawn-2021-chinese-excursion-into-american-life-goes-beyond-the-movies/

 

Given the vast array of consumer products made in China (Walmart estimates Chinese suppliers make up 70-80% of its U.S. merchandise, according to the Alliance for American Manufacturing), it’s a fair assumption that at least some of the equipment essential to our power grid will be manufactured there, such as electrical transformers. According to a 2014 Department of Energy report, the United States has become highly dependent on importing them, with China operating five times the number of power transformer manufacturers compared to the U.S. In total, over 200 Chinese transformers were brought into the U.S. energy sector in the ten years preceding 2019. (Prior to 2009, there were none.)

 

China’s efforts to sabotage, spy, and outright steal American intellectual property have been well-documented. Now, our greatest foreign adversary could very well have a direct line to what is quite literally the cornerstone to modern public life for every American: our energy infrastructure, which, factoring in the recent rolling blackouts in Texas, is already far too susceptible. In May of last year, the Energy Department recently took the unprecedented step of seizing a 250-ton Chinese-built transformer upon its arrival at the Port of Houston, transferring it under federal escort to New Mexico for further inspection. The transformer was meant to supply power to Denver, and though federal officials haven’t publicly said why they sent the transformer to a national lab, experts believe the move signaled possible grid-security concerns.