China Can Cause Blackouts In US And Europe Through Solar Inverter Technology, Suggest Officials

Governments around the world are investigating and banning Chinese inverters after radio and backdoor kill switches discovered - Michael Shellenberger

It sounds like the far-fetched plot of a cheesy James Bond movie: 

the Chinese military causes civilization-crippling blackouts around the world, plunging cities from San Francisco to Berlin to Seoul into chaos, while invading Taiwan. Hospitals stall. Subways freeze. Data centers go dark.

But it’s not far-fetched. 

In fact, China just demonstrated that it has the power and may be willing to use it...