Speaker 1: Hey listeners, ting here ur Beijing bites insider hacking into
Speaker 1: the heart of the US China tech war faster than
Speaker 1: a malicious script lands in your inbox. Let's dive right
Speaker 1: into the past two weeks, because the digital battleground between
Speaker 1: Washington and Beijing has been anything but quiet. First up,
Speaker 1: cybersecurity drama. Google's Threat Intelligence group flagged a China backed
Speaker 1: espionage campaign by the hacking collective oom C six three
Speaker 1: sixty four targeting diplomats in Southeast Asia. These hackers didn't
Speaker 1: just slip in through virtual windows. They compromised Wi Fi networks,
Speaker 1: then trucked diplomats into installing malware disguised as software updates.
Speaker 1: Patrick Whitzel from Google confirmed the malware's sneakysogul dot cc
Speaker 1: payload was injected directly into memory, dodging most security tools
Speaker 1: and yes, definitely supporting China's strategic data gathering ambitions, according
Speaker 1: to Google's technical forensics. Meanwhile, Microsoft reported Chinese state backed
Speaker 1: actors exploiting new vulnerabilities, prompting a flurry of finger pointing.
Speaker 1: Beijing even accused U S spies of hitting Chinese military
Speaker 1: firms in retaliation. To keep things spicy, Germany just nabbed
Speaker 1: an American at a US military base for offering to
Speaker 1: spy for China, so clearly nobody trusts anybody in this
Speaker 1: code war. On the tick restriction front, the US is
Speaker 1: doubling down. New rules are on the horizon to keep
Speaker 1: Chinese made connected cars and smart components off American roads.
Speaker 1: Both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, with the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: five US election looming, are promising to escalate controls. Trump
Speaker 1: favoring tariffs and blunt instruments, Harris going for more focused,
Speaker 1: coordinated blocks for companies. This means more hurdles, especially in
Speaker 1: ai chips and software. Peter Harrell, formerly of US National
Speaker 1: Security calls it the opening of a new front, targeting
Speaker 1: everything from your TikTok feed which must be sold or
Speaker 1: banned soon, to ordinary gadgets loaded with Chinese parts. Let's
Speaker 1: talk semiconductors. I'm looking at you, TSMC and Nvidia, the
Speaker 1: absolute MVPs of tech geopolitics. TSMC in Taiwan is ripping
Speaker 1: out all Chinese made manufacturing tools from its two nanometers
Speaker 1: production lines, directly responding to pending US restrictions like the
Speaker 1: Chip equip Act. According to Nicke and trend Force. Anyone
Speaker 1: taking US funding and chips can't buy equipment from Beijing
Speaker 1: linked companies, so TSMC is reviewing every supply chain milk
Speaker 1: for China made gear to avoid shut down. This is
Speaker 1: massive since TSMC's AI chip revenue just hit thirty one
Speaker 1: dollars point seven b last quarter. At the same time,
Speaker 1: China's pushing her made manufacturing tools, but as of this week,
Speaker 1: they're still trailing behind the West in bleading edge processes
Speaker 1: like lithography. Envid is walking a semiconducted tight rope despite
Speaker 1: the US halting shipments of its Advanced eight twenty chips
Speaker 1: to China. Nvidia has started working directly with the Trump
Speaker 1: administration on new chip models tailored for just enough compliance.
Speaker 1: This week, Nvidia and AMD even agreed to surrender fifteen
Speaker 1: percent of their China chipsale revenues to the US government,
Speaker 1: a Silicon Valley taxman's dream. No, but China isn't idle.
Speaker 1: Home grown AI chip startups like cambricn and Deepseek touting
Speaker 1: the imminent release of a next gen AI chip signal
Speaker 1: Beijin's push for digital self reliance, especially for ultrascaling data centers, Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: Applied Materials, a major chip tool firm, reported slowing China
Speaker 1: demand after US export curbs started to bite. Let's not
Speaker 1: forget the odd twist. A US based Chinese developer, Davis Liu,
Speaker 1: just got a four year prison term for planting a
Speaker 1: kill witch and crashing his employer's systems out of spite,
Speaker 1: not politics. Insider threats always the boss fight nobody wants.
Speaker 1: So what's next in this digital brinkmanship? Experts from Fortune
Speaker 1: and the South China Morning Post forecast a tech war
Speaker 1: that only ramps up more restrictions, less trust, and a
Speaker 1: global market reshaped by whichever side's code runs the world's
Speaker 1: AI cars and phones with every censor chip and logging
Speaker 1: the stake's climb. Thanks for tuning into Beijing bites with ting.
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