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this post was submitted on 14 May 2025
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This is an easy smear to make if no one can verify anything, because no product is mentioned.
Are you a lost tankie?
Hey buddy, you should have further insight into what you're commenting on before you make highly regarded statements.
I know a few things about PV equipment. Nearly all modern inverters have communication systems for mointoring the system's output so you can determine whether panels stop working or if the inverter is on the fritz. Nobody except maybe a private homeowner would want an inverter that doesn't communicate. Also what would the Chinese government get from disrupting PV equipment? No grid is going down because PV isn't working. Remember the sun isn't always shining. As of now these allegations are just that, allegations.
Bloomberg isn't real news. It's on par with RT News.
No true Scotsman would ever lie about Chinese spy technology.
Reuters is citing "two people familiar with the matter" and people in the US federal government not even speaking through an official announcement. While I trust Reuters not to have made up those people's words, this does mean that so far the only source is semi-random US government employees.
So it literally is just the word of people working for Trump we're going on.
And for context, it is quite common for reputable news agencies to misreport things, or to take the word of a government employee as final when they really shouldn't. I personally saw a video of a car running into a climate action protest^1^, only for the 'reputable' Dutch state news agency (NOS) simply going by the police spokesperson's statement that the climate activists had scratched the car before it hit them^2^. But the NOS just said the spokesperson said it, so reputation-wise they were in the clear.
Now I'm not saying the genocidal dictatorship known as the People's Republic of China is not putting spyware on devices shipped to the west. I'm just saying that we need more than an unofficial statement by an employee working under Trump, even if that statement is being signal boosted by Reuters. Skepticism is warranted.
^1^: At 48:50 in this livestream, in the left part of the splitscreen. Luckily it was at walking pace so nobody was injured as far as I know.
^2^: This article, in Dutch.
My opinion (shared by independent observers of journalism and propaganda) of Bloomberg had nothing to do with this story. Bloomberg is propaganda. Like RT, they include unslanted stories along with their worked stories. That's just how propaganda works.
Just like the comment I responded to is just a baseless "oh they're saying something bad about China, China is awesome, they're wrong!" comment.
I don't know about inverters for solar, and yeah, some basic communication equipment will be needed, I'm sure.
I'm also sure that China does add extra shit in there that isn't supposed to be there, but then again, I'm sure that the US does the same.
Either way, I was mostly commenting about the flippant baseless denial from OP