Speaker 1: Cay listeners ting here. And if you've got a taste
Speaker 1: for cyber drama, trade war twists, and enough hacking high
Speaker 1: jinks to make sun Zoo grab popcorn, you're in for
Speaker 1: a bite sized feast. Let's dive into the US China
Speaker 1: tech showdown of the last two weeks. Yes, things are
Speaker 1: that spicy. First, cybersecurity, China's linked hackers just hit a
Speaker 1: top US political law firm with a zero day exploit,
Speaker 1: stealing attorney email credentials. Now, the chatter among infosec pros
Speaker 1: is that these campaigns aren't about petty theft, but shaping
Speaker 1: legal strategies and policy talks, just as trade tensions are cresting. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: Chinese crime syndicate bosses got sentenced to death for running
Speaker 1: billion dollars cyberscam compounds out of Mayan Ma. Those ming
Speaker 1: family legends finally offline. That alone sent a signal that Beijing,
Speaker 1: at least on some fronts, is taking digital scamming seriously.
Speaker 1: Now to the blockbustered new restrictions. On October ninth and tenth,
Speaker 1: China rolled out expanded rare earth export controls and plot twist.
Speaker 1: It's not just the mittals, it's the know how. Beijing
Speaker 1: now requires licenses for tech relator to rare earth mining
Speaker 1: and processing, clamping down on key chip making secrets, battery gear,
Speaker 1: and super hard materials. Cheng Ligang, Chinese technology observer extraordinaire,
Speaker 1: says the semiconductor equipment bottleneck is history for Beijing, and
Speaker 1: the new bottleneck is on America's side. He predicts China
Speaker 1: could soon restrict exports of its homegrown chip making machinery,
Speaker 1: echoing his point a few years ago people would have laughed.
Speaker 1: But here we are America, never the type to watch
Speaker 1: a kung fu flick without leaping in hit back hard.
Speaker 1: President Trump threatened massive new tariffs on Chinese imports, and
Speaker 1: the Commerce Department added twenty nine new entries to its
Speaker 1: entity list, blacklisting sixteen Chinese firms for allegedly so applying
Speaker 1: military drone parts for Iranian proxies, including Easyfly, Intelligent Technology,
Speaker 1: and friend Bell Trading. And it gets wilder with ten
Speaker 1: more Chinese electronics firms banned for moving US origin tech
Speaker 1: into Middle Eastern war zones. And if shipping is your thing,
Speaker 1: China's Ministry of Transport just slapped US owned vessels with
Speaker 1: new port fees four hundred yawn brinet Tan for docking,
Speaker 1: scaling up yearly until twenty twenty eight. America's planned port
Speaker 1: fees on Chinese ships triggered this mirror move, escalating the
Speaker 1: maritime tit for tat. Just before the big Trump She
Speaker 1: summit in Seoul, Wall Street, ever, the drama Queen shuddered,
Speaker 1: s and P five hundred sank one point five percent.
Speaker 1: Nasdak got roasted by tech taraffeirs and qualcombe Cher's dove
Speaker 1: five percent amidst a Chinese antitrust probe. Companies like Apple
Speaker 1: and Nike deeply woven into Chinese supply chains face big headaches.
Speaker 1: The rare Earth squeeze reverberated through chip making stocks, hinting
Speaker 1: at another round of supply chain hot potato. So what
Speaker 1: are the strategic implications? Both sides are maneuvering for leverage
Speaker 1: Beijing's supply chain mastery versus Washington's sanctioned sledgehammer. Policy experts
Speaker 1: forecast a deepening bifurcation, tougher export screens, more outbound investment controls,
Speaker 1: and a non stop regulatory arms race in AI. Quantum
Speaker 1: computing and fintech businesses are investing in compliance scenario planning
Speaker 1: and ever more creative supply chain reshuffling to dodge tariff
Speaker 1: and tech potholes. To sum it up, the US China
Speaker 1: tech war is looking like a high stakes marathon, escalating, retaliating, innovating,
Speaker 1: sometimes even entertaining. If you're betting on daytont soon, my
Speaker 1: advice don't. Instead prepare for sharper lines, more choke points,
Speaker 1: and a whole lot more cyber intrigue. Thanks for tuning in,
Speaker 1: be sure to subscribe, and never miss a bite. This
Speaker 1: has been a quiet please production. For more check out
Speaker 1: Quiet please dot a I