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<v Speaker 1>Hey listeners, ting here ur Beijing bites insider hacking into

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<v Speaker 1>the heart of the US China tech war faster than

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<v Speaker 1>a malicious script lands in your inbox. Let's dive right

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<v Speaker 1>into the past two weeks, because the digital battleground between

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<v Speaker 1>Washington and Beijing has been anything but quiet. First up,

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<v Speaker 1>cybersecurity drama. Google's Threat Intelligence group flagged a China backed

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<v Speaker 1>espionage campaign by the hacking collective oom C six three

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<v Speaker 1>sixty four targeting diplomats in Southeast Asia. These hackers didn't

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<v Speaker 1>just slip in through virtual windows. They compromised Wi Fi networks,

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<v Speaker 1>then trucked diplomats into installing malware disguised as software updates.

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<v Speaker 1>Patrick Whitzel from Google confirmed the malware's sneakysogul dot cc

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<v Speaker 1>payload was injected directly into memory, dodging most security tools

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<v Speaker 1>and yes, definitely supporting China's strategic data gathering ambitions, according

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<v Speaker 1>to Google's technical forensics. Meanwhile, Microsoft reported Chinese state backed

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<v Speaker 1>actors exploiting new vulnerabilities, prompting a flurry of finger pointing.

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<v Speaker 1>Beijing even accused U S spies of hitting Chinese military

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<v Speaker 1>firms in retaliation. To keep things spicy, Germany just nabbed

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<v Speaker 1>an American at a US military base for offering to

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<v Speaker 1>spy for China, so clearly nobody trusts anybody in this

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<v Speaker 1>code war. On the tick restriction front, the US is

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<v Speaker 1>doubling down. New rules are on the horizon to keep

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<v Speaker 1>Chinese made connected cars and smart components off American roads.

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<v Speaker 1>Both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, with the twenty twenty

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<v Speaker 1>five US election looming, are promising to escalate controls. Trump

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<v Speaker 1>favoring tariffs and blunt instruments, Harris going for more focused,

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<v Speaker 1>coordinated blocks for companies. This means more hurdles, especially in

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<v Speaker 1>ai chips and software. Peter Harrell, formerly of US National

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<v Speaker 1>Security calls it the opening of a new front, targeting

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<v Speaker 1>everything from your TikTok feed which must be sold or

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<v Speaker 1>banned soon, to ordinary gadgets loaded with Chinese parts. Let's

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<v Speaker 1>talk semiconductors. I'm looking at you, TSMC and Nvidia, the

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<v Speaker 1>absolute MVPs of tech geopolitics. TSMC in Taiwan is ripping

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<v Speaker 1>out all Chinese made manufacturing tools from its two nanometers

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<v Speaker 1>production lines, directly responding to pending US restrictions like the

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<v Speaker 1>Chip equip Act. According to Nicke and trend Force. Anyone

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<v Speaker 1>taking US funding and chips can't buy equipment from Beijing

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<v Speaker 1>linked companies, so TSMC is reviewing every supply chain milk

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<v Speaker 1>for China made gear to avoid shut down. This is

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<v Speaker 1>massive since TSMC's AI chip revenue just hit thirty one

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<v Speaker 1>dollars point seven b last quarter. At the same time,

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<v Speaker 1>China's pushing her made manufacturing tools, but as of this week,

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<v Speaker 1>they're still trailing behind the West in bleading edge processes

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<v Speaker 1>like lithography. Envid is walking a semiconducted tight rope despite

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<v Speaker 1>the US halting shipments of its Advanced eight twenty chips

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<v Speaker 1>to China. Nvidia has started working directly with the Trump

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<v Speaker 1>administration on new chip models tailored for just enough compliance.

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<v Speaker 1>This week, Nvidia and AMD even agreed to surrender fifteen

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<v Speaker 1>percent of their China chipsale revenues to the US government,

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<v Speaker 1>a Silicon Valley taxman's dream. No, but China isn't idle.

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<v Speaker 1>Home grown AI chip startups like cambricn and Deepseek touting

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<v Speaker 1>the imminent release of a next gen AI chip signal

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<v Speaker 1>Beijin's push for digital self reliance, especially for ultrascaling data centers, Meanwhile,

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<v Speaker 1>Applied Materials, a major chip tool firm, reported slowing China

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<v Speaker 1>demand after US export curbs started to bite. Let's not

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<v Speaker 1>forget the odd twist. A US based Chinese developer, Davis Liu,

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<v Speaker 1>just got a four year prison term for planting a

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<v Speaker 1>kill witch and crashing his employer's systems out of spite,

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<v Speaker 1>not politics. Insider threats always the boss fight nobody wants.

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<v Speaker 1>So what's next in this digital brinkmanship? Experts from Fortune

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<v Speaker 1>and the South China Morning Post forecast a tech war

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<v Speaker 1>that only ramps up more restrictions, less trust, and a

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<v Speaker 1>global market reshaped by whichever side's code runs the world's

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<v Speaker 1>AI cars and phones with every censor chip and logging

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<v Speaker 1>the stake's climb. Thanks for tuning into Beijing bites with ting.

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