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Reported that the 2019, the United States government seized a large power transformer from China at the Port of Houston Chinese company, Jiangsu HuaPeng Transformer Co., Ltd. Was found to have a Hardware Back Door fitted to switch on of remotely the transformer.
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SECURING THE UNITED STATES BULK-POWER SYSTEM
(EO 13920)
May 1st, 2020, Pres. Trump.
Securing the United States Bulk-Power System (May 2020), directs the Secretary of Energy is to work with various Federal agencies to ensure that the acquisition of bulk-power systems is in line with national security demands. CESER will work with interdepartmental partners and the task force created in this EO to ensure that energy security and cybersecurity considerations are accounted for in relevant policymaking.
DURING PRES. TRUMP 1st TERM:
Post 2019 China backdoor in transformer discovery resulted Grid Transformer audit and 300 Power Transformers from China found in US. And secured
FIRST DAY BIDEN TERM:
Biden Executive Order 13990 of January 20, 2021, suspended EO 13920
POST BIDEN TERM: additional 192 added to the grid
Jan 17, 2025, 492 CN transformers now in the Grid.
In 2019, the United States government seized a large power transformer from China at the Port of Houston due to concerns about potential security vulnerabilities, effectively "ceasing" its intended delivery to the U.S. power grid, raising concerns about potential "backdoors" embedded in the Chinese-manufactured equipment that could be used to disrupt the electricity supply; this incident sparked further scrutiny of Chinese-made power transformers being imported into the U.S.
THE TRANSFORMER:
A massive, high-voltage power transformer manufactured by a Chinese company, Jiangsu HuaPeng Transformer Co., Ltd.
REASON FOR SEIZURE:
Concerns that the transformer could contain hidden electronic components ("backdoors") that could be used for cyberattacks on the U.S. power grid. The Department of Energy, which took the transformer to Sandia National Laboratories for further analysis.
IMPACT:
This incident led to increased scrutiny of Chinese-made electrical equipment and contributed to later executive orders restricting the purchase of certain Chinese power grid components.
Power Supply Is the Achilles-Heel of Modern Society
CCP WAR POLICY
CN Government Agency Involved: page 145 unrestricted warfare
CHINESE UNRESTRICTED WARFARE
In 1999, Chinese People’s Liberation Army Cols. Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui published what would prove to be a highly influential book titled Unrestricted Warfare.
The authors argued that modern war at that time had evolved past using only armed forces “to compel the enemy to submit to one’s will” into using all military and nonmilitary means to compel an enemy to capitulate to a state’s political objectives.
According to their analysis, in the modern, highly competitive, globalized world, the roles of soldiers and civilians had been fundamentally erased because the equivalent of war among states in the modern world would now be ongoing continuously and everywhere.
The authors go on to postulate tactics for developing countries to use against more technologically advanced nations in the event of an overt outbreak of hostilities, implying that such measures should be used to chart the course China had to take to compensate for its then military inferiority to the United States.
They outline the synchronized employment of a multitude of means to be used concurrently with military force to prevail in a conflict including hacking into government websites underpinning an opponent’s administration of government, disrupting financial institutions, exploiting the West’s open media, promoting social discord, and conducting urban warfare.
In a separate interview translated by the U.S. Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS), Qiao was quoted as stating that “the first rule of unrestricted warfare is that there are no rules, with nothing forbidden.”
The authors’ contentions foreshadowed not only the direction of Chinese development across the spectrum of its elements of national power but may have been the origin of more recent similar assertions by modern Russian military theorists.
As a result, any serious student of modern warfare would be well advised to become acquainted with this influential work.
There are various commercial translations available for “Unrestricted Warfare”.
However, Military Review recommends an abridged version derived from a translation by FBIS available at unrestricted.pdf.
For those interested in more detail, the background and significance of Unrestricted Warfare on modern military thought, we invite you to read “A New Generation of Unrestricted Warfare,” by retired Lt. Gen. David W. Barno and Dr. Nora Bensahel, published in War on the Rocks on 19 April 2016.
To view the article, please visit a new generation of unrestricted warfare.
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