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Without trying to be conspiratorial, I don't like the amount of articles about funny stuff found in imported Chinese solar power components just after the Iberian peninsula lost power because of presumably disturbances coming from solar power plants.
Idk, feels like US propaganda to me. All the articles about it are suspiciously light on details and it just so happens to coincide well with US Oil based energy policy and our(US) susceptibility to China fearmongering.
Edited to add: I know this is the Europe comm but I feel like US media narratives definitely trickles over to Europe.
There's no reason to think it's propaganda at this stage. It's most likely due to risk assessments being done after the Iberian outage.
That could be but I feel like good propaganda does use other stories and narratives to boost its persuasive power. IF it was due to risk assessments then they should put that in the article. I feel like if they had solid proof, they would be willing to actually share that proof with the public rather than just hearsay that these stories have been.
If there was evidence of it being China, I would think they would be a lot less subtle about it then running articles about sus components without mentioning the connection Iberian incident. Something more direct like 'Iberian outage caused by kill switches in Chinese solar equipment' rather than running separate stories and leaving it to the reader to connect the stories on their own.
That's what makes it suspicious too me, too much fearmongering and too little substance and facts in the articles.
I dont believe chinese are the only ones doing this, but only they are getting news coverage over it, so it does seem a bit like they want to divert attention from the wider problem ( btw why did news media stop reporting about f35 kill swich )
Circuit boards are produced in China, Taiwan and to a much lesser extend there are some productions in countries like Japan, Malaysia, US, India etc. But nearly all are manufactured in China.
And that is one reading that actually makes sense, except it does not even have to be US propaganda. Enough interests exist in the EU itself to push such narratives. Wouldn't our dear Royal Dutch Shell like if we were hooked on oil for just a few more decades?
So that's why I was very careful with my wording here, it just feels something is brewing, but at this point all of these are equally likely and unlikely:
Or one of these is true, but EU authorities are trying to redefine the narrative, so that either: