Speaker 1: Welcome back to Beijing. Bites, I'm ting your digital rakintere
Speaker 1: and self confessed cyber addict here to zap you through
Speaker 1: the sparks and subroutines of the U S China Tech
Speaker 1: wars past two weeks, all from my bunker of screens
Speaker 1: and caffeine in Beijing. Buckle your seat belts, let's bite
Speaker 1: right in first cyber security. The US Justice Department just
Speaker 1: unveiled indictments against two Chinese hackers, Shu Zewei and Jiang Yu,
Speaker 1: who allegedly worked with Shanghai Power Rock Network and Shanghai
Speaker 1: Fire Tech, all under the cozy wing of the Shanghai
Speaker 1: State Security Bureau. Sentinel One's latest report breaks down how
Speaker 1: these firms developed intrusive cyber tools like remote cell phone
Speaker 1: evidence collection, hinting that China's Ministry of State Security is
Speaker 1: now running a cyber contractor ecosystem so intricate that even
Speaker 1: their own propaganda campaigns synchronized with cyber threat reports. US
Speaker 1: agencies aren't taking this lightly indictments, sanctions, and a law
Speaker 1: of public cyber rattling, but this silk typhoon of state
Speaker 1: back tacking just keeps evolving. Attribution has become a cat
Speaker 1: and mouse game. Tools bounce between government offices faster than
Speaker 1: you can say VPN. Meanwhile, on the home front, the
Speaker 1: US is exposing its own under belly. The Trump administrations
Speaker 1: sweeping layoffs driven by the Department of Government efficiency have
Speaker 1: left the federal cyber workforce gutted. Experts like Michael Daniel,
Speaker 1: former White House cybers, are are warning that the US
Speaker 1: digital shield is now full of holes, just as China,
Speaker 1: Russia and every black hat with a brudge are looking
Speaker 1: for a way in state governments, says Tara Wheeler from
Speaker 1: the Council on Foreign Relations, just don't have the muscle
Speaker 1: to patch these gaping vulnerabilities. Trade policies next the summer's
Speaker 1: main event. Trump extended the US China trade truce, now
Speaker 1: set to expire August twelfth. Tariffs ap paused at thirty
Speaker 1: percent for US and ten percent on China side. A
Speaker 1: sliver of stability. AI chip makers like Nvidia are dancing
Speaker 1: on this fragile wire following the July decision to reallow
Speaker 1: certain AI chip exports to China. In Nvidia's CEO, Jensen Wine,
Speaker 1: wasted no time dropping hints about China. Only RTX pro
Speaker 1: GPUs designed to slip through export restrictions while sidestepping Huawei's
Speaker 1: Ascend series. According to Bloomberg, Chinese companies are pouncing with
Speaker 1: Beijing's more favorable rules, fueling ambitions to challenge US dominance
Speaker 1: in the four dollars and eight cents global AI market.
Speaker 1: Behind the curtain, Washington's approach is shifting rather than blanket bands.
Speaker 1: Officials like Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik talk of making Chinese
Speaker 1: developers addicted to US technology Hello dependency management. Meanwhile, TSMC,
Speaker 1: as always is stuck in the cl BO can cross fire,
Speaker 1: its fabs and licensing drama, still making global markets nervous.
Speaker 1: Investors everywhere are recalibrating portfolios in this ninety day window. China,
Speaker 1: for its part, is doubling down on AI's strategy, accusing
Speaker 1: Washington at the World Economic Forum of weaponizing trade to
Speaker 1: suppress Chinese innovation, and Beijing's recent AI action plan suggests
Speaker 1: the rivalry is only heating up. As for what to expect,
Speaker 1: unless policymakers on both sides find reasons to pull back,
Speaker 1: We're heading for deeper digital segmentation, each side nurturing walled
Speaker 1: gardens of tech standards and alliances others, including Europe, are
Speaker 1: anxiously watching, trying neither to freeze nor fry in this
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