At exactly midnight on December 31, 2012, every electronic device made in China for the last 30 years stops working.
From the U.S. electrical grid and all its back-ups, engine control-management systems, early warning systems on U.S. satellites, every motor vehicle, aircraft and ship made after 1985, to even simple memory chips inside children’s teddy bears—every electronic fuse, resistor, or connector that was “Made in China” becomes dormant…forever.
Secret information was kept from the people of the United States. Few knew how many millions of these foreign-made products either the American government or its massive military infrastructure had purchased of these extremely affordable minute electronic parts. The United States of America’s many electronic manufacturers and all the First-World countries’ manufacturers had never been able to get close to the extremely cheap prices offered by Chinese companies for decades. It was as if Chinese companies were selling these parts below cost, and they were perfectly made, worked effortlessly, and never ever failed! The largest majority of the purchased merchandise was not whole machines, electronic devices, or units but smaller, minor parts, which even though they were tiny in the workings of the mother unit, were nevertheless intricate in making sure that the whole system worked perfectly. Simple impulse-directional chips, electrodes, monitor screens, power switches, fuses, bulbs, verbal and visual components, electronic on/off-switches, emergency override switches, communication chips, information-saving boards, and most important emergency burn-out protectors stopped operating and performing their micro-important chores.
At one minute past midnight on January 1st, 2013, every modern television broadcast of the U.S. New Year’s Eve festivities on the East Coast black-out. Millions of motor vehicles with an engine management system or engine-computerized system suddenly die, causing loss of control and thousands of accidents only seconds into the New Year. Traffic lights, directional beacons, communication stations, and all aircraft landing systems black out a couple of minutes later, as their modern back-ups start failing. Children’s Christmas presents, nearly forgotten, stop buzzing, moving, and blinking and go silent. Radios, computers, and all forms of electronic communication devices—even the latest 132 million electronic Christmas presents given only a week earlier (iPhone 5Gs, IPod Nano 4s, IMac Notepads and iPad 3s) go silent, never to blink on again. Ninety seconds after midnight, the entire electrical grid of North America deactivates itself and goes into close-down mode. Several million small, unimportant relay systems and emergency override systems go dead. Emergency backup-grids automatically try to cut in to preserve power, but thousands of their small control parts, also made in China, are already terminated. For the first time in U.S. history, there is not one bright city seen from space over the entire continent.
Within five minutes into a cold New Year’s Day, newly lit candles are the only light and heat available in every northern metropolis in the country