The fact that you made such a statement regarding the article in response to the one post indicates to me that either you did not read the article in whole, or that you are willing to write-off an entire list of very respectable and noted authorities on the issue. Either way, it does not reflect well.
However, I was incorrect to refer to the article as hysterical. It's effect seems to be, but not the actual article itself.
And I certainly agree that an large-scale EMP attack is a potential risk that should be looked into, but the urgency urged here seems excessive.
(Of course, I may be a bit soft on China since I just returned from a 6-week Law School program in Beijing. Except for possibly the .01% of the population in the upper echelons of the Central Communist Party, there is little animus towards America that I could detect.)