China has ‘secretly embedded microchips’ across UK capable of bringing country to standstill, MPs warned

CHINA could bring Britain to a standstill by switching off traffic lights and freezing electric vehicles, MPs were warned.

has secretly embedded microchips across UK infrastructure that could be weaponised to trigger , experts claimed at a private briefing in .

Chinese President Xi JinpingMPs were warned China could remotely paralyse electric cars to block roads and cripple supply chains

Ex-MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove and veteran diplomat Charles Parton told a dozen Labour MPs the threat lies in Chinese-made CIMs – control interface modules – which act as “gateways to computers”;; and are already found in vehicles, routers and payment terminals.

Mr Parton warned the Communist regime could use them to “turn off the traffic light system”;; or remotely paralyse electric to block roads and cripple supply chains.

Sir Richard added that Chinese electric vehicles were essentially “computers on wheels”;; and could be reprogrammed at any moment – raising the alarming prospect they could be used to “immobilise London”;;.

The session, hosted by Labour MP and chair of the Coalition on Secure Graeme Downie, focused on China’s push to dominate the world through non-military means – using and technology as its “battlefield”;;.