Shock report: China can sabotage critical U.S. national infrastructure.

Posted on June 23, 2012 at 2:19 PM EST

The U.S. House Intelligence Committee will investigate two major Chinese telecommunications equipment companies to determine their links to the communist government and whether their products, embedded in critical U.S. infrastructure, threaten U.S. national security.
The committee fears that the equipment the companies sell on the U.S. market could enable the Chinese government to conduct espionage and even sabotage of the nation’s infrastructure through an “electronic backdoor.