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<v Speaker 1>Hey, listeners, it's ting Buckle up for today's Beijing bites,

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<v Speaker 1>where your favorite tech whisperer wraps up a wild fortnight

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<v Speaker 1>in the ongoing US China tech chess match. The weather

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<v Speaker 1>in Washington is hot and steamy, and the news in

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<v Speaker 1>cyber and Semis is even hotter. Right out of the gates,

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<v Speaker 1>a plot twist no one saw coming, July delivered a

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<v Speaker 1>rare ceasefire in the infamous chip war. After years of

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<v Speaker 1>exports bands piling higher than my overdue code reviews, the

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<v Speaker 1>US actually dialed things back. On July third, President Trump's

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<v Speaker 1>administration suddenly lifted a ban on vital chip design software

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<v Speaker 1>sales to China, undoing a move that rattled eeda goliaths

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<v Speaker 1>like Synopsis and Cadence. Their stock popped instantly, and for

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<v Speaker 1>one golden moment, analysts dared to praise a small ceasefire

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<v Speaker 1>between Washington and Beijing. Not to be outdone, the US

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<v Speaker 1>greenlit in Nvidia to resume some advanced AI chip sales

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<v Speaker 1>to China, just months after a blanket ban choked off

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<v Speaker 1>the last pipeline. Traders on Wall Street cheered, but Capitol

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<v Speaker 1>Hill far less amused. John Mullinar, chair of the House

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<v Speaker 1>Select Committee on China fired off a warning that selling

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<v Speaker 1>Nvidia's H twenty chips could provide substantial increase to China's

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<v Speaker 1>AI development, which translation means sleepless nights for US national

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<v Speaker 1>security hawks. What's the game here? Simple negotiation. Beijing responded

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<v Speaker 1>by softening its rare Earth embargo, and the two giants

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<v Speaker 1>have opened up high level trade talks. US Treasury Secretary

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<v Speaker 1>Scott Bessant claimed trade is in a good place, hinting

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<v Speaker 1>at more pragmatic, if fragile tech diplomacy ahead. Yet don't

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<v Speaker 1>get comfy, deep distrust lingers. Congress is actively debating outbound

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<v Speaker 1>investment curbs for US money into Chinese AI and semiconductors,

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<v Speaker 1>and new strategic export controls are popping up among US

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<v Speaker 1>allies like the Netherlands. Meanwhile, in Beijing, the Foreign Ministry

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<v Speaker 1>keeps railing against tech containment, doubling down on self reliance,

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<v Speaker 1>and blasting what it calls the weaponization of science and technology. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>let's click over to cybersecurity. A truly nail biting few

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<v Speaker 1>weeks if you're running on prem SharePoint, Microsoft and Sissa

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<v Speaker 1>urgently warned that hackers are exploiting a critical flaw toolshell,

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<v Speaker 1>letting them waltz through SharePoint servers. Globally, dozens of government

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<v Speaker 1>and energy orgs breached, including at least two US federal agencies. OUCH.

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<v Speaker 1>Google's Threat Intelligence group spotted attackers planting webshells and yunking

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<v Speaker 1>cryptographic secrets. Recommendation patch yesterday Assume you're breached, Investigate everything.

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<v Speaker 1>Microsoft also faced flak after journalists revealed that China based

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<v Speaker 1>engineers were working on tech used by the US Department

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<v Speaker 1>of Defense. Frankshaw from Microsoft hastily declared no more China

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<v Speaker 1>based teams on Pentagon projects, effective immediately. Meanwhile, across the globe,

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<v Speaker 1>China linked hacker group APT forty one embarked on fresh

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<v Speaker 1>cyber espionage campaigns in Africa, leveraging you guessed it, compromised

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<v Speaker 1>SharePoint servers. Their malware cleverly avoids activating on systems set

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<v Speaker 1>to Chinese, Japanese or Korean. No friendly fire for these pros.

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<v Speaker 1>Big picture industry is feeling the whiplash, and Video expects

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<v Speaker 1>fifteen billion dollars from China this half alone, but new

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<v Speaker 1>export controls could still bite hard if the rules shift again.

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<v Speaker 1>Export restrictions help US national security but sap us firm

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<v Speaker 1>innovation if taken too far. Everyone's walking at tech tightrope

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<v Speaker 1>expert consensus. We're in for more sea sawing, fleeting detante

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<v Speaker 1>than new friction. Policymakers and CEOs alike are balancing innovation, revenue,

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<v Speaker 1>and risk as China sprints toward indigenous chip design and AI.

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<v Speaker 1>My bet the chip war takes a summer breather, but

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<v Speaker 1>the race to rule AI and cyber is only getting started.

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<v Speaker 1>Thanks for tuning in to Beijing Bites, smash that subscribe

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