Simultaneous with efforts by the Biden administration to “green” America’s energy infrastructure, Chinese companies have become key suppliers of hardware to the U.S. electric grid that analysts fear could give China the ability to crash the grid if hostilities were ever to escalate.
Americans have become so used to an uninterrupted supply of electricity that our degree of dependence on the grid for the most basic necessities, like food, water, heat, medical care, communication, and increasingly, transportation, often goes unnoticed. But experts say that America’s electric grid is an Achilles heel.
“If they’re able to knock the grid out, basically modern society is going to fall,” Joe Trotter, director of the Energy, Environment, and Agriculture Task Force at the American Legislative Exchange Counsel, told The Epoch Times. “The modern grid runs our whole infrastructure and without power, we don’t have refrigeration, our food supply goes down, our water supply goes down….