Speaker 1: Hello, listeners, ting here your bite sized guide to the
Speaker 1: pulse of the U. S. China tech war, cyber skirmishes,
Speaker 1: and every bite in between. Buckle up, because these past
Speaker 1: two weeks have turned the rivalry into a full on
Speaker 1: cyber thriller, with all the drama of a Jiangimo epic
Speaker 1: and the complexity of a quantum chip. Let's start with
Speaker 1: the juiciest plot twist cyber warfare. Williams and Connolly, the
Speaker 1: legendary Washington law firm representing folks like Bill Clinton, found
Speaker 1: themselves at the center of a Chinese state sponsored hacker
Speaker 1: campaign CrowdStrike, and Mandian swooped in after a zero day
Speaker 1: exploit cracked some attorney emails. The FBI's Washington Field office
Speaker 1: leads a sprawling investigation as nearly a dozen other law
Speaker 1: firms and tech giants appear court in similar webs. The motive,
Speaker 1: according to sources briefed on the probe and Mandian's September report,
Speaker 1: isn't financial ransom, but laser focused espionage. China is after
Speaker 1: sensitive US national security intel and international trade secrets. Corporate
Speaker 1: America's Panic room just got a whole lot busier as
Speaker 1: government defenses sputter thanks to the US federal shutdown that
Speaker 1: began October first, groups like the Crimson Collective tuned their
Speaker 1: attacks to moments of maximum vulnerability. Their breach of red
Speaker 1: Hat's consulting division hit eight hundred organizations, including defense contractors,
Speaker 1: NASA's JPL, and even the House of Representatives. Timing wasn't
Speaker 1: just unfortunate, it was tactical exploiting. Hollowed out cyber defenses.
Speaker 1: As CEESA ran on a skeleton crew, the world watched
Speaker 1: as American response in reporting channels lagged, offering adversaries a
Speaker 1: golden cyber window. Meanwhile, the export controls slugfest escalated. President
Speaker 1: Trump's administration broadened restrictions to hit not just chip makers
Speaker 1: like Huawei, YMTC and Dji, but their subsidiaries too. Think
Speaker 1: whack a mole, but every mole is a billion dollar
Speaker 1: tech firm. These rules effective immediately forced redesigns from companies
Speaker 1: like Nvidia and cut off whole fleets of Chinese supply chains.
Speaker 1: Just as the dust from the Nvidia H twenty chip
Speaker 1: sales controversy settled with Trump demanding a massive cut, Beijing
Speaker 1: shot back, choking off rare earth mineral exports critical for
Speaker 1: military and five G Tech, but in June both sides
Speaker 1: dialed back tariffs and lifted bands a truce or just
Speaker 1: a tactical retreat. Across the Pacific, the launch of broader
Speaker 1: US bands on chip making equipment crawled into the headlines
Speaker 1: after a report revealed Chinese firms bought thirty eight dollars
Speaker 1: billion in gear last year from chip tawol giants like
Speaker 1: ASML and Tokyo Electron thirty nine percent of their sales.
Speaker 1: Lawmakers screened for tighter controls and more international coordination as
Speaker 1: loopholes allowed non US firms to keep selling advanced tools
Speaker 1: to Chinese manufacturers. A House panel flat out accused the
Speaker 1: tool makers of undermining American national security and fueling China's
Speaker 1: AI ambitions. China isn't just sitting on its chips, It's
Speaker 1: doubling down. Made in China twenty twenty five keeps powering ahead,
Speaker 1: flugging patents, dominating evs and shipbuilding, and betting hard on
Speaker 1: AI governance and data standards. Beijing's support for domestic chip
Speaker 1: innovation is rising, and strategic stockpiles of minerals from Mongolia
Speaker 1: to Sichuan are now serving both factories and diplomats, market reactions,
Speaker 1: Hong Kong Tex stocks sagged, Asian allies feel the squeeze,
Speaker 1: and the entire semiconductor sector braces for more supply chain
Speaker 1: shakeups and price spikes. This rivalry isn't settling down, folks.
Speaker 1: It's evolving, and the next summit between Trump and Shijinping
Speaker 1: could bring more fireworks or just another chess move. Expert
Speaker 1: analysis says the battle is now about system level leverage
Speaker 1: as much as technology controls slow China's progress, but also
Speaker 1: force the US to reckon with dependencies and to ask
Speaker 1: how far it's willing to push before allies get caught
Speaker 1: in the crossfire. The forecast more scrutiny, more creative circumvention,
Speaker 1: and sorry not sorry, the hacking will keep escalating. Thanks
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