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<v Speaker 1>Hello, bite heads, ting here, your snarky sidekick and circuit

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<v Speaker 1>board whisperer, dialing in from Beijing on July third, twenty

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<v Speaker 1>twenty five. Buckle up because the US China tech war

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<v Speaker 1>has cranked up to quantum speed these past two weeks,

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<v Speaker 1>and whether you're a code warrior or just worried about

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<v Speaker 1>your smartphone, you'll want all the details leading the headlines

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<v Speaker 1>cybersecurity chills. Last week, reports surfaced of a major breach

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<v Speaker 1>in a US cloud provider, suspected to be the handiwork

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<v Speaker 1>of a group with links to Chinese state backed actors.

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<v Speaker 1>The company hasn't named names classic pr move, but the

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<v Speaker 1>breach has put federal agencies and Silicon Valley on edge.

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<v Speaker 1>Not to be outdone, Chinese authorities revealed a counter hack

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<v Speaker 1>that exposed a trove of tools allegedly used by American

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<v Speaker 1>cyber offensive teams. Both sides are flexing, and trust me,

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<v Speaker 1>the cyber space trenches have never been deeper. Now onto

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<v Speaker 1>tech restrictions, Washington just doubled down, expanding the entity list

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<v Speaker 1>to cover three more Chinese AI firms, deep Seek among them.

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<v Speaker 1>If you haven't heard, deep Seek unleashed an open source

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<v Speaker 1>AI model last week, matching US heavyweights at a fraction

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<v Speaker 1>of the cost that sent tech investors into a minor panic.

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<v Speaker 1>Within Vidia's shares zigzagging like a roller coaster. Rumors are

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<v Speaker 1>swirling that the US may tighten curbs on Nvidia's H

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<v Speaker 1>twenty chips, but nothing official yet, and Nvidia execs are

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<v Speaker 1>pretending not to sweat. I'm not buying it. Meanwhile, Beijing

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<v Speaker 1>is playing its own game of chess hot off the

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<v Speaker 1>press a refreshed catalog of prohibited tech exports, with new

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<v Speaker 1>bands on shipping advanced lidar and photovoltaic silicon wafer tech

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<v Speaker 1>out of China. This comes in lockstep with stricter export

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<v Speaker 1>controls on rare earth refining, the minerals that make everything

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<v Speaker 1>from evs to stealth fighters possible. With China still holding

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<v Speaker 1>roughly eighty five percent of global rare earth processing, the

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<v Speaker 1>US is anxiously tallying up its stockpiles. Policy shifts are

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<v Speaker 1>happening at government works orp speed. The US is prioritizing

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<v Speaker 1>tech sovereignty over old school trade deficits tariffs are out,

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<v Speaker 1>national security is in the Biden administration is accelerating its

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<v Speaker 1>fifty billion dollar Chips Act rollout, while China's one hundred

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<v Speaker 1>and forty three billion dollars drive for semiconductor self sufficiency

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<v Speaker 1>is moving from PowerPoint to factory floor. Both sides are

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<v Speaker 1>pouring billions into their homegrown champions and slashing knowledge transfer.

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<v Speaker 1>University labs that once teamed up are now keeping each

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<v Speaker 1>other at arm's length. The industry impact supply chains are

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<v Speaker 1>scrambling to adapt Taiwanese fab TSMC is hedging its bets

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<v Speaker 1>with new plants from Phoenix to Kumamoto, while Huawei, still

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<v Speaker 1>blacklisted in the West, is leaning hard into open source

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<v Speaker 1>and domestic alternatives. The global economy fragmenting faster than my

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<v Speaker 1>old think pad after a coffee spill. Everyone from Europe

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<v Speaker 1>to Southeast Asia is being forced to pick sides or

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<v Speaker 1>risk being left behind. So where are we headed? Experts

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<v Speaker 1>warn that the race for dominance in AI and chip

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<v Speaker 1>tech will only intensify, driving up R and D budgets

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<v Speaker 1>and splitting the world into US and China centric tech blocks.

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<v Speaker 1>Some whisper of a new digital Cold war. Others see

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<v Speaker 1>a world of parallel innovation. My bet watch out for

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<v Speaker 1>stealthy pivots from both sides in tech. The only constant

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<v Speaker 1>is surprise and maybe a zero day exploit or two.

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<v Speaker 1>Stay tuned, stay patched, and I'll see you in the

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<v Speaker 1>next update. This is Ting signing off from Beijing bites.

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