Oh Goody, I love stories like this......
Time to put on the tin foil hat, the one made with a whole roll of Reynolds.
Let's go back to the first gulf war. I saw a special on the discovery channel, a couple years ago, that claimed the U.S. had installed microchips into computer printers that allowed our cruise missles to find these printers when a satellite signal was sent out to activate the chip. Of course, the show goes on to tell us, these printers were sold to Iraqi government agencies.
Tin Foil hat adjusted
My Tin Foil Theory.........Japan makes T.V.'s (Toshiba) for U.S. markets and contracts a Chinese company to provide chips for their televisions. The PLA smelling a prime opportunity sends Toshiba microchips that will send a signal that Chinese satellites can pick up, enabling Chinese missiles to be guided in on a pre-identified target.
(Some unsuspecting airmen, soldier or sailor that has one of these in his on-base housing, PLA notes with great joy that they have a positive target to which to guide their missile, thereby insuring a more accurate strike)
Leave the rest up to your own Tin Foil imagination.
What is the down side to this theory? If it's true, we have bought a LOT of chinese electronics over the last few years here in the U.S.
Bon Appetite!
of course there are only about 1000 holes in this theory, but hey, if there weren't we'd be trading our tin foil hats in for a nice 1950's bomb shelter.
You know it really surprised me that the powers that be didn't take the TV with them to "study".