Speaker 1: Ting here with your fresh Beijing bites, US China tech
Speaker 1: war updates and friends. If you thought summer was hot,
Speaker 1: you haven't seen what's sizzling between Washington and Beijing. Right now,
Speaker 1: Let's talk cyber fireworks first. This past week, Chinese hacker
Speaker 1: groups like line in Typhoon and Violet Typhoon, flagged by
Speaker 1: Microsoft's Threat Research, managed to breach the US National Nuclear
Speaker 1: Security Administration. YEP, they got into the agency that keeps
Speaker 1: watch on America's nuclear arsenal. The vehicle of choice a
Speaker 1: freshly exploited vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint. While officials from the
Speaker 1: Department of Energy assure everyone that the impact was minimal
Speaker 1: and no classified information leaked, hundreds of organizations worldwide were hit.
Speaker 1: This underscores a relentless, high stakes duel, the US fortifying
Speaker 1: its cyber defenses while Chinese thread actors continuously scout for
Speaker 1: new doors to pry open. It's the cyber secure the
Speaker 1: equivalent of two tigers fighting on a mountain, except the
Speaker 1: mountain is full of zero days and the tigers are sleepless.
Speaker 1: The Independent now onto the silicon front lines. The US
Speaker 1: just rolled out even tighter export controls targeting AI chips
Speaker 1: in Nvidia must now get special licenses to supply even
Speaker 1: their China focused H twenty models. This comes hot on
Speaker 1: the heels of President Donald Trump's Deregulation First AI Action Plan,
Speaker 1: which is designed to cement US dominance in AI and
Speaker 1: accelerate tech exports to allies. Meanwhile, China isn't just sitting
Speaker 1: on its hands. Premier Lee Jiang, at Shanghai's World Artificial
Speaker 1: Intelligence Conference, unveiled the proposal for a Global AI Corporation
Speaker 1: organization think UN for AI, except headquartered in Shanghai and
Speaker 1: pointedly inclusive of the global South, to counter what they
Speaker 1: call the exclusive game of US chip monopoly. Nvidia CEO
Speaker 1: Jensen Huang, who's practically on a first name basis with
Speaker 1: Beijing Airport staff at this point, even called China's domestic
Speaker 1: AI chip advances formidable. The AI tech stacks are fragmenting
Speaker 1: folks into two rival blocks, each with their own standards, partners,
Speaker 1: and rules, from joint research to regulatory philosophies. WIC the
Speaker 1: Asia Group ts two. Policy wise, both economies are dancing delicately.
Speaker 1: Trade officials from Beijing in Washington are expected to extend
Speaker 1: their tariff pause another ninety days at Talks and Stockholm.
Speaker 1: This means for now the tariff status quo holds, but
Speaker 1: behind the scenes, the sticking points remain. The US is
Speaker 1: fixated on China's overcapacity and hunger for semiconductor know how,
Speaker 1: while China wants to loosen the chokehold the US is
Speaker 1: put on its high tech sectors. A recalibration is beginning,
Speaker 1: with Chinese state planners calling for more balanced regional industrial
Speaker 1: policy so every province doesn't chase the same tech unicorn
Speaker 1: acmp AP World Bank. The strategic implication, we're watching the
Speaker 1: steady formation of two parallel tech universes, one US LAD,
Speaker 1: one China LAD, each racing to win the AI era
Speaker 1: and shape how the world is wired and governed. Experts
Speaker 1: like George Chen of the Asia Groups say we're heading
Speaker 1: for a global alignment where allies in Belton road countries
Speaker 1: pick sides or at least hedge their bets. My take,
Speaker 1: if you're in tech security or geopolitics, buckle your seat belt.
Speaker 1: Both nations are tossing around offers of open source AI
Speaker 1: and pragmatic cooperation on the surface, but under the hood,
Speaker 1: every move is about control of supply chains, information and
Speaker 1: digital sovereignty. That's the bite sized drama for this week.
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