China develops weapons to fry US electric
grid, eyes high-tech ‘Pearl Harbor’ attack

Thanks to Bill Clinton and Bernie Schwartz (Loral Space) in the 90s, selling the Chinese the technology to make this dream a reality.

Oh Good Grief. They have had the technology to turn out country into a radioactive waste-land for over half a century and now they want us to be terrified that China could knock out our Netflix? It would suck for a while in America as those of us with generators and gas grills got very popular. But all trade with China would stop instantly and they would have to forget about getting that principal and interest from all that US National Debt they own. Chinese would starve by the billions while we quickly fixed what broke. This is silly.

I hope the globalists are happy with their friends the Chinese.

Why is this news out there ? Hoping some protesters would do it for them ?

For those who poo-poo the idea that any "Pearl Harbor" EMP attack is not even remotely possible because China would hurt themselves in the process... consider the virus you've been dodging these past months and the impact on our country. Then think of American national grid going down. And staying down. For months, many months. Then think of those two words: "Cascading" "Failures". How is your food distributed, preserved, grown? How is your water pressure and sanitation maintained? How do you have any idea of what has really happened and what to expect long term? And a few guys with backyard generators and gas grills ain't gonna save ya, honey.

Yawn. Very, VERY old news. This has been a threat for decades, nothing new.

This has been a threat for decades, but that doesn't make it any less real. Our "government" could harden our electrical systems to the tune of 2 billion dollars, but they have much more frivolous things to waste our money on. Why should they care if 90% of the population is dead in less than a year? I know it's confusing since they care so much that we don't catch some flu bug. They care so much about that, they are willing to crash the entire economy. Ever notice that they always opt for the things that hurt American citizens? We are WAY past the tipping point, this government we have is beyond reform.

If China has the technology, I would think we probably have it too. Sooooooooo. . .

I would usually just say that they had better think it over. It didn't work out too well for Japan, but considering the character of Americans today compared to the Americans of that era, it wouldn't look good for us.

Or they could unleash a virus, that they alone possess an antidote for, that kills us all and takes the whole county intact.

#7, don't get too freaked out. The fiction stories are just that FICTION. For instance, the overwhelming majority of modern cars will either do NOTHING if running when a EMP hits, or will shut down and need to be turned off and restarted...undamaged. A few will need to have the battery disconnnected momentarily to do a 'hard reboot' on their computers. Best testing shows that most vehicles should be OK to drive with no repairs or minor repairs. One of the key problems in the fiction books is "all the cars and trucks are fried, can't be repaired". As a guy who has fixed cars for over 50 years, I never bought this deal. My assumption was - if it is fried, I'll rewire it and get new parts and just make it work. No magic under the hood of cars, just parts made and maintained by us humans. A lot of items plugged into the grid will be fried, in general. Items not plugged in will mostly be fine. The big REAL boogey man was main grid power transformers, units the size of a small house. Twenty five years ago there were NO North American factories making large grid power transformers, and most of them were custom made jobs with a two or three year lead time, and not field repairable. Over that period, with the impetus of EMP risk, many large power transformers have been replaced as they naturally wear out with newer designs which are 1) standardized, not custom 2) designed to be field repairable 3) replaced one giant transformer with 3 units in parallel of a smaller, standard design....which they can afford to have a few spare units around and finally 4 ) made in USA or Canada. There are, at last count, seven North American makers of large power transformers. This situation was one of the most critical items on the old "we'll all die in the dark" fiction books....blown up transformers that couldn't be field repaired and had to be made in Swizerland or China, with years long lead times. Significantly not completely true any more, and much better protective methods are installed too. Will this make an EMP into a "nothing burger"? Almost certainly not, but if the cars work, and the trucks work, and the combines work, and many of the transformers were not fried, or if harmed are field repairable in a few days to weeks, or a spare unit can be installed quickly to get 1/3 rated capacity in a few days to get into a rapid "rolling blackout" situation with power to an area for maybe 6 hours at a time, then off for 12 hours, on for six, until it can be 12 hrs on 12 hrs off, as things are repaired......THAT is a hell of a lot better than the scenarios in the books - which were and are FICTION. EMP is real, and no question some serious harm could happen. But military electronics is mostly immune, I know, I helped build some of it, and the grid is significantly more resistant and repairable than it used to be. And cars will mostly just shrug it off.