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<v Speaker 1>Listeners, it's ting here with your daily download from Beijing

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<v Speaker 1>bites us China tech war updates. We've had a wild fortnight,

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<v Speaker 1>so let's skip the small talk and jack straight in.

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<v Speaker 1>If you thought the cyberfront was simmering, think again. Former

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<v Speaker 1>NSA chief Jen tim Howe has been all over sixty

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<v Speaker 1>minutes warning that China is hacking not just American industry

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<v Speaker 1>or the Pentagon, but critical infrastructure, water utilities, electrical grids,

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<v Speaker 1>transportation networks, you name it. Littleton, Massachusetts, population barely ten thousand,

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<v Speaker 1>became ground zero when the FBI revealed the local water

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<v Speaker 1>plants networks were cracked by Chinese actors. The trick find

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<v Speaker 1>a weakness in an old firewall, grab lug in credentials,

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<v Speaker 1>and play it cool. Don't trigger the alarms, just camp

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<v Speaker 1>out until the day you need to flip a switch.

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<v Speaker 1>According to Hall, China's not after secrets. This is about

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<v Speaker 1>leveraging crisis, pure unrestricted warfare. The fun fact slash wake up.

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<v Speaker 1>No one knows the full extent of how many American

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<v Speaker 1>networks have these sleeper cells waiting, but its likely millions

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<v Speaker 1>of daily probing attacks are going on. Global cybercrime damages

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<v Speaker 1>are now hurtling toward an insane ten dollars and fifty

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<v Speaker 1>cents trillion annually, and this is a big driver. Not

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<v Speaker 1>to be outdone, the US is swinging a legislative hammer.

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<v Speaker 1>Last week, lawmakers pushed a Senate bill to deepen public

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<v Speaker 1>private collaboration and beef up defenses while reenforcing expiring provisions

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<v Speaker 1>in the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act. There's also been a

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<v Speaker 1>high profile breach at the elite law firm Williams and Connolly,

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<v Speaker 1>executed via a zero day exploit suspected to be nation state,

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<v Speaker 1>upping the paranoia for every corporate bigwig in DC. Meanwhile,

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<v Speaker 1>the Chips versus minerals battle has truly gone thermal. Just Thursday,

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<v Speaker 1>beaiging unleashed glittering new export controls on rare earths like

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<v Speaker 1>wholemium and herbium. Think advanced lasers, fiber optics, and even

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<v Speaker 1>nuclear tech. China's Trade Ministry m o FOCOM followed up

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<v Speaker 1>by slapping restrictions on lithium ion battery tech and related

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<v Speaker 1>manufacturing gear to export high performance battery cells or graphite.

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<v Speaker 1>Anadotes companies that to export the cost of the existing

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<v Speaker 1>fuel system reflects a larger range of markets starting November eighth.

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<v Speaker 1>These controls hit everything from roller kills to mixer machines

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<v Speaker 1>and chunky cathode chemicals like nickel, colbaate, Mangelong bellfarm. The

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<v Speaker 1>goal strangle the US and its allies wherever their most

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<v Speaker 1>battery hungry. President Trump responded in classic form, pledging one

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<v Speaker 1>hundred per cent tariffs on every Chinese import effective November one,

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<v Speaker 1>and tightening export controls on US advanced software. Trump outright

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<v Speaker 1>called Beijing's move hostile and nixed his planned sit down

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<v Speaker 1>with zijin Ping. Later this month. Markets freaked b s

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<v Speaker 1>and P five hundred had its worst sessions in d April.

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<v Speaker 1>US farmers are bracing for ag retaliation, and now Asian

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<v Speaker 1>exchanges are braced for a Monday blood bath. Expert consensus

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<v Speaker 1>is coalescing around one word disruption. Trade supply chains, tech,

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<v Speaker 1>R and D, and market stability all are collateral in

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<v Speaker 1>this cyber mineral cold war. The US has the tech

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<v Speaker 1>switch with its chip ban regime, but China's now holding

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<v Speaker 1>the material switch with rare earths and battery tech trivium.

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<v Speaker 1>China even called it a new tool to hit back

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<v Speaker 1>at firms that side with US tech restrictions forecasts. Expect

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<v Speaker 1>more tip for tat, more shadowy hacks, and less trust

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<v Speaker 1>American utilities get patching tech execs. Buckle up because the

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<v Speaker 1>game board just shrank and every move is watched. I'm ting,

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<v Speaker 1>and I'll be decoding every cipher right here on Beijing Bytes.

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