Commentary You’d think the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) would know better than to mess with Texas. But a planned wind turbine facility in West Texas owned by Chinese with links to the CCP exposes just how vulnerable our electric grid is to national and cybersecurity threats. Legislation filed in Texas to ban power plants owned by hostile nations offers a model other states should follow to protect our electric grids not just from blackouts, but from a sea of red. Let’s start with the facts. The Xinjiang Guanghui Industry Investment Group, a conglomerate run by a member of the CCP, purchased 140,000 acres of land in the Devil’s River area of Val Verde County, Texas, along the Mexican border. The company’s U.S.-based subsidiary plans to install more than 40 wind turbines there, a move even pro-renewable groups such as the Sierra Club oppose. The really uncomfortable part? The Chinese regime …
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