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<v Speaker 1>Listeners ting here coming at you direct from Beijing bytes.

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<v Speaker 1>We're the only thing evolving faster than AI is the

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<v Speaker 1>US China tech rivalry. I mean, if you blinked over

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<v Speaker 1>the past two weeks, you might have missed a major

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<v Speaker 1>plot twist. Let's jack in first up cybersecurity chaos. US

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<v Speaker 1>federal agencies hit a red alert after a new campaign

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<v Speaker 1>of zero day hacks tore through Cisco firewell equipment. According

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<v Speaker 1>to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, teams were

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<v Speaker 1>racing to disconnect, breach devices and plug vulnerabilities before Chinese

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<v Speaker 1>state back hackers Yes, Palo Alto Networks Unit forty two

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<v Speaker 1>and Microsoft Storm one eight four nine have their fingers

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<v Speaker 1>pointing at China could do more damage. These attackers bypassed logging,

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<v Speaker 1>crashed gear to confuse diagnostics and get This could persist

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<v Speaker 1>through reboots. Security folks are calling this not just a

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<v Speaker 1>wake up call, but a full on fire drill, especially

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<v Speaker 1>as exports go public and copycats pile in. If you're

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<v Speaker 1>running legacy Cisco, it's probably a door stop. Now now

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<v Speaker 1>slide into policy and restrictions. The Trump administration YEP, still

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<v Speaker 1>an active player, just hammered home a TikTok restructuring deal,

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<v Speaker 1>forcing Oracle to take the data reins and mandating US ownership.

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<v Speaker 1>Critics eye this is crony capitalism, but insiders say it's

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<v Speaker 1>about appeasing national security hawks without nuking TikTok's US business. Meanwhile,

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<v Speaker 1>tariff after tariff on Siney Conductors EVS Robotics has kicked

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<v Speaker 1>traditional supply chains into overdrive. US tech companies are sprinting

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<v Speaker 1>to Vietnam and Mexico for manufacturing, and Chinese gadget exports

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<v Speaker 1>to the US are down by seventy percent since late

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<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty four. Its competitive coexistence, but the gloves are off.

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<v Speaker 1>China isn't standing still in retaliation for US defense deals

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<v Speaker 1>with Taiwan. Beijing just slammed six more American firms like

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<v Speaker 1>Saronic and Aircom with unreliable entity designations translation banned from

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<v Speaker 1>trading in China. Three more snapped up on the export

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<v Speaker 1>control list, bocking dual used text shipments on the home front,

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<v Speaker 1>while were is swerving around restrictions via some highly original architecture,

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<v Speaker 1>Magic linking up clusters of its own AI chips to

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<v Speaker 1>match in some cases punch above in Vidia's performance envelopes.

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<v Speaker 1>As one analyst in Shanghai put it this week, the

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<v Speaker 1>real AI war is less about chips and more about

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<v Speaker 1>who's inventing the next way around limits. Strategically, the split

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<v Speaker 1>is sending industry tremors worldwide. The US Chips and Science

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<v Speaker 1>Act and relentless export controls push for tech autonomy, but

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<v Speaker 1>over eighty percent of iPhones in American stores are still

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<v Speaker 1>built in China. China, for its part, is pouring billions

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<v Speaker 1>into AI and R and D, leap frogging sanctions by

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<v Speaker 1>cloud loopholes and dominating mature node chip production. Investor money

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<v Speaker 1>shifting to Southeast Asia and Africa, where governments joggle security

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<v Speaker 1>compliance and volatility. Looking ahead, experts that supply chains will

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<v Speaker 1>stay fragmented. We'll see more AI innovation sprints from Chinese

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<v Speaker 1>companies like Deep Seek a name to watch, especially after

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<v Speaker 1>their algorithmic breakthroughs rattled US chip valuations. Meanwhile, both sides

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<v Speaker 1>escalate self reliance and allies are forced into a tech

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<v Speaker 1>cold war, piecing together new partnerships out of necessity rather

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<v Speaker 1>than ideology. Thanks for tuning in to Beaijing bites, listeners,

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