Speaker 1: Hey, listeners, ting here with Beijing bites. You're always on
Speaker 1: radar for the latest in the US China tech war,
Speaker 1: and believe me if you thought things were calling off.
Speaker 1: The past two weeks have seen more plot twists than
Speaker 1: a Black Mirror episode. Let's get straight to the juiciest bite.
Speaker 1: On September eleventh, China's legendary Great Firewall suffered its largest
Speaker 1: leak ever. Over five hundred gigabytes of internal documents, code,
Speaker 1: and logs dropped onto the Internet courtesy of what folks
Speaker 1: at the GFW Report are calling a cybersecurity mess of
Speaker 1: historic proportions. We're talking trade secrets on blocking websites, screenshots
Speaker 1: of real time monitoring, and a smoking gun showing GEG
Speaker 1: network's brainchild of fang Binging, China's so called father of
Speaker 1: the Firewar, has pedaled censorship tools worldwide, from Minmar to Kazakhstan.
Speaker 1: Thanks to Wired's deep dive, we now know European companies
Speaker 1: even helped Gegs sell these digital defences abroad. The global
Speaker 1: impact activists might soon have a leg up on evading censorship,
Speaker 1: but cyber criminals are drooling over this code for new exploits. Internally,
Speaker 1: this is a blow to the infallible image of Chinese
Speaker 1: cyber defenses, and you can bet the Pollit Bureau is fuming.
Speaker 1: But if you thought the motherboard melting drama was limited
Speaker 1: to the cyber realm, buckle up for the latest round
Speaker 1: of chip wars. Just yesterday, Chinese Ministry of Commerce rolled
Speaker 1: out two high profile investigations, one accusing the US of
Speaker 1: unfairly targeting Chinese semiconductor firms the kind of policy spat
Speaker 1: that's been brewing since the Trump administration, and another probing
Speaker 1: US analog chip dumping after imports spiked thirty seven percent
Speaker 1: since twenty twenty two, while price is nose diived by
Speaker 1: fifty two percent. Texas Instruments analog devices, Oh Semiconductor watch
Speaker 1: a market share because domestic Chinese players like cyllidy G
Speaker 1: and SG Micro are ready to eat your lunch. This
Speaker 1: all hit the news right before Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant
Speaker 1: landed in Madrid for crunch trade talks with Vice Premier
Speaker 1: Hi Leifang. Timing, as they say in cryptography, is everything
Speaker 1: On the U S side. Retaliation came fast. Just as
Speaker 1: the anti dumping probe hit headlines. The US Commerce Department
Speaker 1: added another twenty three Chinese entities to the restricted trade list,
Speaker 1: citing national security fares, especially around military and AI tech.
Speaker 1: Washington's tightening restrictions on advanced chips and AI exports continued
Speaker 1: to squeeze Chinese tech growth and the pressures hitting hard.
Speaker 1: Deljia's cut jobs in China, and tech darlings like Synopsis
Speaker 1: have seen their sales tumble after new rules. Meanwhile, at
Speaker 1: the policy level, we've got White House AI advisor Cratsios
Speaker 1: telling Congress that defending America's AI lead is now a
Speaker 1: national mission, while NASA banned Chinese nationals with US visas
Speaker 1: from its facilities. As the lunar space race heats up,
Speaker 1: So what's coming next? Experts like those at the National
Speaker 1: War College are warning that China's cyber incursions into US
Speaker 1: critical infrastructure aren't just espionage. They're prepping the digital battlefield,
Speaker 1: ready to flick the switch if tensions over Taiwan flare,
Speaker 1: the game borders shifting from tariffs and restrictions to all
Speaker 1: out tech containment and industry players and all of us
Speaker 1: really are left configuring our firewalls and dusting off our
Speaker 1: contingency plans. That's your flash update from Beijing Bites. Thanks
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