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<v Speaker 1>Hey listeners, teing here, bringing you another high voltage Beijing

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<v Speaker 1>bites forget trade talks over pandas and tariffs. Right now,

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<v Speaker 1>its microchips, machine intelligence, and some eyebrow raising hacks driving

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<v Speaker 1>the latest round of U S China tech showdowns. In

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<v Speaker 1>the last two weeks, the battle for chip supremacy has escalated,

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<v Speaker 1>with both Washington and Beijing turbo charging their semiconductor industry.

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<v Speaker 1>According to Tom's Hardware, the US has been tightening export

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<v Speaker 1>controls on AI chips, with the Department of Justice recently

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<v Speaker 1>indicting two Chinese nationals for trying to reroute Nvidia H

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<v Speaker 1>one hundreds through Malaysia and Singapore. Meanwhile, the Bureau of

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<v Speaker 1>Industry and Security just dropped an eighty name entity list update.

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<v Speaker 1>Think of it as a giant not Invited list for

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<v Speaker 1>Chinese firms trying to buy critical US tech. The Biden

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<v Speaker 1>era AI openness policy is history. Trump's administration just swapped

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<v Speaker 1>it for hard nosed rules demanding rigorous due diligence on

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<v Speaker 1>any investment headed for Chinese AI or semiconductor players. Treasury's

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<v Speaker 1>new outbound investment screening, effective this January, is laser focused

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<v Speaker 1>on advanced chip design supercomputing and AI software, basically the

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<v Speaker 1>crown jewels of digital, military and economic power house. The

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<v Speaker 1>industry reacting companies like Nvidia and a m D are

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<v Speaker 1>revamping product lines, offering special light versions of chips for

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<v Speaker 1>the Chinese market, while Intel and t SMC are literally

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<v Speaker 1>pouring concrete in Arizona, New York, and even Germany to

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<v Speaker 1>build friendshored fabs safe from geopolitics. But the real curveball

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<v Speaker 1>China's risk fee gambit. At a recent risk fee summit

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<v Speaker 1>in Shanghai, China rolled out its secret source, doubling down

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<v Speaker 1>on open source CPU tech. Now Chinese reps are chairing

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<v Speaker 1>most major risk fee committees, and Beijing just greenlit a

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<v Speaker 1>wave of incentives to push risk fee across industries. The

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<v Speaker 1>goal cut the cord to Western chip tech once and

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<v Speaker 1>for all. But it's not just supply chains and rules.

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<v Speaker 1>Cyber attacks are the new normal. Dark Trace warns that

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<v Speaker 1>Chinese apts and RAS groups have been exploiting zero day

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<v Speaker 1>flows like CVE DASH twenty twenty five, DASH nine nine

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<v Speaker 1>four against US city infrastructure and government agencies. The healthcare

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<v Speaker 1>sector is bleeding data with record breaches up to two

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<v Speaker 1>a day, and then there's Lao Wang and his criminal

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<v Speaker 1>crew recently profiled by gb hackers whose smishing attacks have

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<v Speaker 1>stolen hundreds of millions in payment credentials. What's wild is

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<v Speaker 1>their use of digital wallet tokenization, exploiting Apple Pay and

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<v Speaker 1>Google Wallet to fly under the radar and launder money

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<v Speaker 1>glid the strategic risk. Gladstone AI's report for the US

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<v Speaker 1>government says AI labs are security equivalent of Swiss cheese,

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<v Speaker 1>with Chinese hardware offering backdoor access and advanced espionage tactics

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<v Speaker 1>that could theoretically paralyze data centers or reconstruct AI models

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<v Speaker 1>just by sniffing electrical signals. Chris Ray of the FBI

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<v Speaker 1>sums it up, China's cyber theft campaign is more damaging

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<v Speaker 1>than ever, and the US is stuck reacting, not preventing.

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<v Speaker 1>Looking ahead, expect deeper bifurcation or tech decoupling, with both

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<v Speaker 1>sides dependent on each other for now. Experts like Chris

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<v Speaker 1>Miller and William Matthews predict a split future, short term

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<v Speaker 1>pain and skyrocketing costs, but potentially a world where two

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<v Speaker 1>rival digital ecosystems evolve. If China cracks advance chip making,

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<v Speaker 1>the global balance might tilt that's your bite for today.

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