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May 31, 2025 - Epoch Times
03:12
Secret Cellular Radios in Chinese-Made Solar Inverters? | Michael Shellenberger
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It's now been revealed that the Chinese who manufacture virtually all of our solar panels, both in the United States and Europe, they have been installing cellular radios inside the inverters, which can act as kill switches.
And you might think, well, that sounds like a conspiracy theory.
Not a conspiracy theory.
There was actually a Chinese solar company that turned off the solar panels.
And sent up a little message to its users saying we've turned this off because these solar panels are only authorized to be used in certain countries.
They can't be used in Pakistan, the United States, and a few other countries.
It popped right up on the monitor.
There was a huge discussion about it.
So we know that the Chinese solar companies, all of which are essentially, can be used as arms of the Chinese military.
There's really no...
The Chinese government has made it clear that they can be viewed as extensions of the Chinese security state.
They are able to switch off large amounts of solar, and if you are able to do that, then you are able to cause the depowering, and thus the blackouts of the grid.
How big of a problem is this?
We don't know.
I mean, there's been...
Obviously the Chinese government wants to continue to be able to sell solar panels to us.
I think most national security experts view this as something that the Chinese could do if there was, for example, an invasion of Taiwan and the United States decided to defend Taiwan.
The Chinese could potentially trigger blackouts in the United States and Europe.
As crazy as that sounds, that is the reality.
And in fact, there's not any debate about that.
That's where we're at.
And so the only question now is, how is the United States government responding to that?
I haven't yet gotten answers from the Department of Energy, but we're hoping to get that within a few days, actually.
Give me a picture of how is it that China achieved total dominance in basically this technology, in manufacturing this technology?
Because the United States was in dream world.
We're in dreamland.
Obviously, they're able to make solar panels cheaper than anywhere in the world.
In large part due to the coerced labor from these Uyghur Muslims who are in these concentration camps.
Again, not a conspiracy theorist.
It's been very well reported.
That's where the vast amount of solar cell manufacturing and panel manufacturing is occurring are in those areas.
We know the Chinese government has been massively subsidizing the investment on solar.
Precisely so they can, you know, dump the solar panels in other countries to destroy other nations' indigenous solar manufacturing.
And then we've just, look, we've been, you know, in Dreamworld.
We've imagined that it's okay to let the Chinese manufacturer, not just solar, but I mean, we're talking drones, you know, we're talking critical military technology.
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