Widening power shortages in China have halted production at numerous factories including many supplying Apple and Tesla, while some shops in the northeast operated by candlelight and malls shut early as the economic toll of the squeeze mounted.
How did china manage to get hit by power issues :sadness:
A lot of these grids are still analog. Unless the CIA is ruining around hitting power lines with hack saws, this appears to just be a crunch in supply relative to ballooning demand.
I think you're underweighting that Australia - the region's largest coal producer - is on the outs with China while we're experiencing a global shipping crunch that would disrupt the sale of coal-fuel to Chinese plants.
Sure. But that's on China for continuing to do business with them. They've got Russia literally right on the other side of the Amur river, with more natural gas export than it knows what to do. If Merkel's Berlin can figure this shit out, what's Xi's excuse?
Well, someone very deliberately shot up a substation in the U.S. (California?) a few years back, so those type of attacks are far from out of the question.
No guaranteed by any means, just a significant chance of it.
I mean, if there's a substation in China with bullet holes everywhere, please let me know. I remember something about a controlled demolition at a hydro dam in Venezuela in the thick of the "Venezuela Bad!!!" panic of 2018, and that having CIA fingerprints all over it. I believe that was around the same time someone tried to drone-bomb Nicholas Maduro, too.
But the shit between Australia and China isn't looking like sabotage nearly so much as simple souring of relations between Extremely Racist White People and The Yellow Peril.
Hey you know how libs like to get in a panic about "WHAT IF RUSSIA HACKS OUR POWER GRID?!?!"
Okay now imagine it's the US doing the hacking
Minimum 50% chance of this
A lot of these grids are still analog. Unless the CIA is ruining around hitting power lines with hack saws, this appears to just be a crunch in supply relative to ballooning demand.
Given how they sabotaged the DPRK on the ground, I wouldn't put it past them.
I think you're underweighting that Australia - the region's largest coal producer - is on the outs with China while we're experiencing a global shipping crunch that would disrupt the sale of coal-fuel to Chinese plants.
Australia, a nation wherein the CIA effectively did a soft coup in back in like the 70s.
Sure. But that's on China for continuing to do business with them. They've got Russia literally right on the other side of the Amur river, with more natural gas export than it knows what to do. If Merkel's Berlin can figure this shit out, what's Xi's excuse?
Well, someone very deliberately shot up a substation in the U.S. (California?) a few years back, so those type of attacks are far from out of the question.
No guaranteed by any means, just a significant chance of it.
I mean, if there's a substation in China with bullet holes everywhere, please let me know. I remember something about a controlled demolition at a hydro dam in Venezuela in the thick of the "Venezuela Bad!!!" panic of 2018, and that having CIA fingerprints all over it. I believe that was around the same time someone tried to drone-bomb Nicholas Maduro, too.
But the shit between Australia and China isn't looking like sabotage nearly so much as simple souring of relations between Extremely Racist White People and The Yellow Peril.
I think they cite coal ( :sadness: ) issues in the article