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<v Speaker 1>Hey listeners, ting here with Beijing bites your favorite cyberslooth

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<v Speaker 1>and tech whisperer summing up the wild world of US

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<v Speaker 1>China tech warshanaligans from the last two weeks. Buckle in

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<v Speaker 1>because it's been a high voltage fortnight out here. Let's

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<v Speaker 1>get straight to the main dish. August twenty ninth saw

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<v Speaker 1>Washington crank up the pressure by axing those juicy export

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<v Speaker 1>waivers for Samson Electronics and s k Heinex, the South

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<v Speaker 1>Korean memory chip titans with megafabs in shan Wukshi and Delian.

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<v Speaker 1>The US Commerce Department nixed their validated end user status,

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<v Speaker 1>meaning their Chinese factories can no longer import advanced chip

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<v Speaker 1>making tools without laborious individual licenses. Fun fact, these companies

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<v Speaker 1>crank out about forty percent of their memory chips in China.

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<v Speaker 1>Chris Miller, semiconductor guru and author of chipwar, said this

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<v Speaker 1>puts Korean firms in a tight spot, needing herculean ingenuity

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<v Speaker 1>to keep producing high end silicon Irony Alert these restrictions

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<v Speaker 1>could unwittingly hand market share to Chinese firms like IMTC,

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<v Speaker 1>if not matched by similar curbs on local competitors. Meanwhile,

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<v Speaker 1>South Korea's Trade ministry is pleading for supply chain stability,

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<v Speaker 1>and China's Commerce ministry is, as expected, fuming and vowing retaliation.

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<v Speaker 1>Ramp up the cybersecurity volume. Wow, was it loued lately?

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<v Speaker 1>On August twenty seventh, the FBI confirmed that China's hacking

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<v Speaker 1>group Salt Typhoon, breached at least two hundred US companies.

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<v Speaker 1>This campaign spanned critical infrastructure, with Dutch intelligence tagging salt

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<v Speaker 1>Typhoon's cousin red Mic for espionage stunts in Europe too.

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<v Speaker 1>Google's Threat Intelligence group discovered another China linked outfit u

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<v Speaker 1>A C six three eight four, redirecting diplomat's web traffic

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<v Speaker 1>into malware traps. He set rang the alarm bell about promptlock,

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<v Speaker 1>the very first AI driven and ransomware using OpenAI tech,

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<v Speaker 1>proving cyber criminals are now hacking at scale with artificial intelligence.

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<v Speaker 1>Safe to say, if you're running free PBX telephony or

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<v Speaker 1>o off integrations patch like your life depends on it. Meanwhile,

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<v Speaker 1>Beijing went a little extreme inflexing its digital muscles, and

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<v Speaker 1>August twentieth, the entire country disconnected from the global Internet

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<v Speaker 1>for over an hour. A blackout engineered via forged TCP

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<v Speaker 1>reset packets on Port four forty three that blocked foreign sights,

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<v Speaker 1>snuffed out Apple and Tesla's servercoms, and gave observers chills

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<v Speaker 1>about a coming digital iron curtain. Experts suspect this was

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<v Speaker 1>a test or maybe a misfire, but tech circles are

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<v Speaker 1>calling it a possible preview of China's push to silo

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<v Speaker 1>its internet industry impact. China's factories are feeling the squeeze.

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<v Speaker 1>August data shows manufacturing is still in contraction five months

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<v Speaker 1>in a row. The official PMI clung to forty nine

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<v Speaker 1>point four as advanced tech curbs and a muted property

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<v Speaker 1>sector keep recovery Elusive. Trade talks between Lee Che Gang

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<v Speaker 1>and the US are ongoing, but the tech chill isn't

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<v Speaker 1>warming up soon. On the China side, innovation is stubborn.

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<v Speaker 1>Corway revealed its cure in nine thousand, two hundred chip

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<v Speaker 1>designed by High Silicon and fabricated by SMC, proving Chinese

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<v Speaker 1>fabs can still pump out premium silicon for new five

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<v Speaker 1>G flagships. Meanwhile, local AI chipmakers like cambracn are gathering

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<v Speaker 1>fresh government cash, and deep seek is pushing new FP

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<v Speaker 1>eight precision for AI training, fueling hopes of decoupling from

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<v Speaker 1>U S supply chains. Expert analysis warn strategic rivaly will

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<v Speaker 1>only intensify. The US is likely to keep tightening export

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<v Speaker 1>controls and investing in domestic chip production, while China races

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<v Speaker 1>to build self sufficiency, especially in AI and semiconductors. Open

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<v Speaker 1>AI's Sam Altman says, don't underestimate Beijing in the AI race.

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<v Speaker 1>Invidia is hoping for regulatory green lights, but those chips

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<v Speaker 1>might not land in China for a while. The Crystal

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<v Speaker 1>Ball get ready for more cyber mayhem, tighter global supply chains,

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<v Speaker 1>and lots of drama as both sides weaponize innovation and

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<v Speaker 1>policy tech rivalry as the new Cold War. Watch this space.

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