Advertisement The New York Times (NYT), based on analysis by a private intelligence firm Recorded Future, reported on February 28 that as the China-India tensions in eastern Ladakh continued unabated last year, a Chinese entity penetrated India’s power grid at multiple load dispatch points. It also raises the possibility that an October 13 blackout in India’s financial capital Mumbai, while the city managed to contain COVID-19 outbreak, could be related to this intrusion. The NYT story (and the report it was based on) seems to suggest that the alleged activity against critical Indian infrastructure installations was as much meant to act as a deterrent against any Indian military thrust along the Line of Actual Control (“a show of force,” as Recorded Future put it) as it was to support future operations to cripple India’s power generation and distribution systems in event of war.