The national security concerns bundled with the State Grid Corporation of China’s 40-percent stake in the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines have long been a concern of lawmakers. | BPinlacINQ
Concepcion said former National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon even inspected the NGCP’s headquarters and regional offices in 2020 to check if the SGCC indeed has remote access to the country’s power grid.“Until you verify that the SGCC is clean and has no remote access, I wouldn’t believe whatever you’ll tell us. I would still believe they have access remotely. The SGCC can, if it wants to, sabotage our national grid,” he said.
But it shouldn’t spark panic since there are measures that can be adopted to allow the NGCP to continue its operations, Esperon also said.“There’s no such thing as a hundred percent invulnerable cybersecurity system,” Concepcion argued. “Definitely, it is a vulnerability – the hefty share of a state-owned enterprise from a foreign country, which has not been friendly [and] has been hostile to us, especially in our waters,” Hontiveros said.
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