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<v Speaker 1>All right, listeners, ting here your one stop bite for

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<v Speaker 1>all the delicious drama digital and otherwise in the US

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<v Speaker 1>dash China tech war. Let's plug in, because these last

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<v Speaker 1>two weeks have been anything but dull on the Beijing

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<v Speaker 1>bite cyber airwaves. First up, Taiwan dropped the semiconductor bombshell

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<v Speaker 1>on June tenth. Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs slapped Huawei

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<v Speaker 1>and SMC with new export controls. Now any Taiwanese chip

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<v Speaker 1>gear or nohow sent their way needs government approval. This

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<v Speaker 1>turbocharged Washington's earliest sanctions, sealing a loophole and smashing the

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<v Speaker 1>brakes on China's ability to leapfrog into advanced chip making.

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<v Speaker 1>Prventus just had to delay mass production of its shiny

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<v Speaker 1>new nine to one zero c ai chip, and s

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<v Speaker 1>Make's dreams of catching up took a hit two. According

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<v Speaker 1>to Isaac Lane at A and Vest, this is forcing

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<v Speaker 1>China to double down on its homegrown chip drive. Beijing's

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<v Speaker 1>China Chip two point z zero has a one dollar

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<v Speaker 1>and four cents war chest to make sure China isn't

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<v Speaker 1>left behind in the silicon dust. But hold up while

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<v Speaker 1>the US and Taiwan are putting up walls, Chinese tech

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<v Speaker 1>is taking the lemons and hacking lemonade. Edwin Foster at

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<v Speaker 1>A invest notes that US tariffs and controls have been

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<v Speaker 1>ironically a growth hormone for Chinese resilience. US semiconductor output

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<v Speaker 1>is down twelve percent, while China's tech sector ballooned twenty

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<v Speaker 1>five percent. As American factories running to labour bottlenecks, Arizona,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm looking at you, and inflation eats away at competitiveness,

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<v Speaker 1>Chinese companies are thriving, innovating under pressure, and making investors

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<v Speaker 1>look East for the next big thing. Meanwhile, the cyber

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<v Speaker 1>front lines are heating up. Italian police nabbed zu Zewei,

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<v Speaker 1>a notorious hacker tied to silk typhoon or hafnium, at

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<v Speaker 1>Milan's airport. US prosecutors say Zoo, with a body named

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<v Speaker 1>jang Yu, hacked into the Texas Research University's COVID nineteen data,

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<v Speaker 1>then helped pillage Microsoft Exchange servers and poke around for

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<v Speaker 1>US government secrets. While Zoo awaits extradition, Washington is touting

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<v Speaker 1>its crackdown on threat actors and rallying partners like Italy

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<v Speaker 1>to turn up the heat, according to reports from Security

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<v Speaker 1>Boulevard and sc Media. If that's not enough digital cloak

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<v Speaker 1>and dagger for you, Canadian media Titan Rogers just confirmed

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<v Speaker 1>it was targeted by the Chinese Group's Salt Typhoon. This outfit,

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<v Speaker 1>previously flagged for sneaking into US and UK telecoms, aims

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<v Speaker 1>for nothing less than global communications supremacy, think intercepted calls, emails,

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<v Speaker 1>and a front row seat to government gossip. On the

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<v Speaker 1>policy side, Washington's new budget bill really puts the Use

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<v Speaker 1>Shall Not Pass into clean tech credits for companies with

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<v Speaker 1>Chinese ties. The prohibited foreign entity restrictions are squeezing China

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<v Speaker 1>out of competing for US green energy tax perks. As

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<v Speaker 1>if that weren't complicated enough, Trump two point zero's tariff

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<v Speaker 1>tracker is revving up with new Section two hundred and

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<v Speaker 1>thirty two probes higher tariffs on everything from chips to cranes,

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<v Speaker 1>and a persistent squeeze on Chinese tech imports, all the

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<v Speaker 1>while US supply chain friend shoring is hitting turbulence, making

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<v Speaker 1>things costlier and more fragmented. Strategic analysts are calling this

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<v Speaker 1>the end of American semiconductor hegemony. Both nations are playing

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<v Speaker 1>hard ball. Washington is trying to bottle up high tech secrets,

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<v Speaker 1>while Beijing is hustling for chip independence and cyber leverage

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<v Speaker 1>the world. It's left navigating a fractured, multipolar chip powered future.

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<v Speaker 1>My forecast more sharp elbows, creative policy pivots, and definitely

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<v Speaker 1>more digital sneak attacks. Don't blink, listeners, one byte mist

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<v Speaker 1>is an eternity lost in this game. Thanks for tuning

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