Speaker 1: All right, listeners, ting here your one stop bite for
Speaker 1: all the delicious drama digital and otherwise in the US
Speaker 1: dash China tech war. Let's plug in, because these last
Speaker 1: two weeks have been anything but dull on the Beijing
Speaker 1: bite cyber airwaves. First up, Taiwan dropped the semiconductor bombshell
Speaker 1: on June tenth. Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs slapped Huawei
Speaker 1: and SMC with new export controls. Now any Taiwanese chip
Speaker 1: gear or nohow sent their way needs government approval. This
Speaker 1: turbocharged Washington's earliest sanctions, sealing a loophole and smashing the
Speaker 1: brakes on China's ability to leapfrog into advanced chip making.
Speaker 1: Prventus just had to delay mass production of its shiny
Speaker 1: new nine to one zero c ai chip, and s
Speaker 1: Make's dreams of catching up took a hit two. According
Speaker 1: to Isaac Lane at A and Vest, this is forcing
Speaker 1: China to double down on its homegrown chip drive. Beijing's
Speaker 1: China Chip two point z zero has a one dollar
Speaker 1: and four cents war chest to make sure China isn't
Speaker 1: left behind in the silicon dust. But hold up while
Speaker 1: the US and Taiwan are putting up walls, Chinese tech
Speaker 1: is taking the lemons and hacking lemonade. Edwin Foster at
Speaker 1: A invest notes that US tariffs and controls have been
Speaker 1: ironically a growth hormone for Chinese resilience. US semiconductor output
Speaker 1: is down twelve percent, while China's tech sector ballooned twenty
Speaker 1: five percent. As American factories running to labour bottlenecks, Arizona,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at you, and inflation eats away at competitiveness,
Speaker 1: Chinese companies are thriving, innovating under pressure, and making investors
Speaker 1: look East for the next big thing. Meanwhile, the cyber
Speaker 1: front lines are heating up. Italian police nabbed zu Zewei,
Speaker 1: a notorious hacker tied to silk typhoon or hafnium, at
Speaker 1: Milan's airport. US prosecutors say Zoo, with a body named
Speaker 1: jang Yu, hacked into the Texas Research University's COVID nineteen data,
Speaker 1: then helped pillage Microsoft Exchange servers and poke around for
Speaker 1: US government secrets. While Zoo awaits extradition, Washington is touting
Speaker 1: its crackdown on threat actors and rallying partners like Italy
Speaker 1: to turn up the heat, according to reports from Security
Speaker 1: Boulevard and sc Media. If that's not enough digital cloak
Speaker 1: and dagger for you, Canadian media Titan Rogers just confirmed
Speaker 1: it was targeted by the Chinese Group's Salt Typhoon. This outfit,
Speaker 1: previously flagged for sneaking into US and UK telecoms, aims
Speaker 1: for nothing less than global communications supremacy, think intercepted calls, emails,
Speaker 1: and a front row seat to government gossip. On the
Speaker 1: policy side, Washington's new budget bill really puts the Use
Speaker 1: Shall Not Pass into clean tech credits for companies with
Speaker 1: Chinese ties. The prohibited foreign entity restrictions are squeezing China
Speaker 1: out of competing for US green energy tax perks. As
Speaker 1: if that weren't complicated enough, Trump two point zero's tariff
Speaker 1: tracker is revving up with new Section two hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty two probes higher tariffs on everything from chips to cranes,
Speaker 1: and a persistent squeeze on Chinese tech imports, all the
Speaker 1: while US supply chain friend shoring is hitting turbulence, making
Speaker 1: things costlier and more fragmented. Strategic analysts are calling this
Speaker 1: the end of American semiconductor hegemony. Both nations are playing
Speaker 1: hard ball. Washington is trying to bottle up high tech secrets,
Speaker 1: while Beijing is hustling for chip independence and cyber leverage
Speaker 1: the world. It's left navigating a fractured, multipolar chip powered future.
Speaker 1: My forecast more sharp elbows, creative policy pivots, and definitely
Speaker 1: more digital sneak attacks. Don't blink, listeners, one byte mist
Speaker 1: is an eternity lost in this game. Thanks for tuning
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