They just actually bought up a lot of Australia’s electricity grid, no need to back door it (tho when you own it I guess you can do that too)

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-21/chinese-investment-in...

> the presence of hardware backdoors in the Chinese-made transformer at Sandia was confirmed by Latham Saddler (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0EawFC18MI) who was the Director of Intelligence Programs at the National Security Council during the Trump administration. Latham stated that the Chinese transformer was taken to “one of our national labs,” and something was found in the transformer: “They found hardware that was put into the transformer that had the ability for somebody in China to switch it off.” Not only has this information not been shared with US utilities, this information has not been shared with our closest allies who also have these Chinese-made transformers.

Is there any other source for this aside from a YT video? I mean I would tend to believe it, but extraordinary claims...

Man what a bunch of nonsense. This guy running as a Republican has no credibility whatsoever. They totally botched the China response during Trump and now he wants to double down. I wonder if he is funded by Peter Theil or some other rich robber-baron wannabe.

Seriously as soon as they blurt out certain key words (ie. socialism is scary, tells story about 9/11 yet was not involved in any way) you can get a good picture of what disasters he will create. We don't need a leader that "you can have a beer with". We tried that with Bush.

We don’t need Chinese Communism either. If you like it so much, go see what it’s really like.

I agree that we don't need Chinese Communism but if you think a guy peddling right wing tropes is going to fix the problem then I got a bridge to nowhere to sell you.