Tag: chinese tech risks

China Is Both Supplier and Saboteur of America’s Electric Grid, Experts Say

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…


State Governments ‘Weakest Link’ in Protecting America From ‘Enemy’ Cyberattacks

United States federal agencies and the Pentagon over the last decade have imposed a matrix of restrictions on purchasing technology from companies owned or influenced by China’s ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP), but few of the nation’s 50 states have taken similar precautions. In fact, many state governments apparently aren’t aware—or haven’t publicly acknowledged—how potentially…