Speaker 1: This is Beijing bites with ting your exclusive bite sized
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Speaker 1: your VPN. The past couple of weeks have been turbocharged
Speaker 1: with tariffs, tech titans, and cyber intrigue. Let's cut to
Speaker 1: the chase. Headlines still sizzle thanks to President Trump's tariff tornado.
Speaker 1: Since May second, small value packages from the Chinese mainland
Speaker 1: in Hong Kong are feeling the heat, with duties slapping
Speaker 1: both e commerce upstarts and big shipments alike. When Beijing
Speaker 1: cranked up its own tariffs, Trump countered threatening a whopping
Speaker 1: one hundred and four percent duty on Chinese goods. China's
Speaker 1: Ministry of Commerce fired back, branding it a mistake on
Speaker 1: top of a mistake, with threats to fight to the end,
Speaker 1: but also curiously calling for equal dialogue. If you're hoping
Speaker 1: for detant, don't hold your breath. This rhetoric is anything
Speaker 1: but chill. Meanwhile, microchips remain the hottest battleground as of
Speaker 1: this month. The US is doubling down on export control rolls,
Speaker 1: with over one hundred and forty Chinese firms now blacklisted.
Speaker 1: This means less access to US innovation for China, especially
Speaker 1: in semiconductors, AI, green energy, and robotics. Trump's vision reshore
Speaker 1: chip manufacturing, supercharge American AI and squeeze China's tech aspirations.
Speaker 1: It's a game of silicon chess, and right now the
Speaker 1: US still holds the queen. American companies design nearly half
Speaker 1: of all global chips, while China hovers near seven percent.
Speaker 1: Xi Jinping's dream of a tech powered China needs those
Speaker 1: chips and the machines that make them, but the recipe
Speaker 1: is still mostly US made. Beijing isn't sulking. Instead, She's
Speaker 1: crew is investing billions in homegrown semiconductor production and energy tech.
Speaker 1: They're also rolling out yuan based trade deals with Russia,
Speaker 1: Brazil and Ossion pals, inching away from the almighty dollar
Speaker 1: in a quiet de dollarization offensive. These moves are about resilience,
Speaker 1: ensuring China can weather the Washington squeeze now and still
Speaker 1: made in China, twenty twenty five milestones now sprinkle in cybersecurity.
Speaker 1: While there hasn't been a headline grabbing zero Day in
Speaker 1: the past fortnight, both sides are playing cloak and dagger
Speaker 1: in the digital shadows. The cyber espionage. Tit for tat
Speaker 1: continues with reports of increased fishing and supply chain probing,
Speaker 1: especially targeting next gen battery and AI research facilities. Industry
Speaker 1: impact Asian markets are adapting fast. Intra Asian trade jumped
Speaker 1: eighteen percent this year, signaling that companies are hedging bets
Speaker 1: and shifting supply chains away from drama prone routes. This
Speaker 1: may mean more smartphones designed in California, assembled in Vietnam
Speaker 1: with chips made in Taiwan, but all sides know that
Speaker 1: a single exploit or regulation could scramble that. Overnight expert
Speaker 1: consensus the decoupling is real, but de risking is the
Speaker 1: new buzzword. Both countries are racing to future proof their
Speaker 1: tech stacks. Expect continued escalation, more eye popping tariffs, and
Speaker 1: constant hat and mouse in cyberspace forecast. The only thing
Speaker 1: certain is more uncertainty. Stay tuned. I'm ting keeping tabs,
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