Speaker 1: Welcome back bathing by its listeners. It's ting here, your
Speaker 1: source for all things China, hacking, and everything in between.
Speaker 1: One a fortnight for the US China text, micdown, gribe
Speaker 1: you popcorn. Because things have exploded across cybersecurity, tech restrictions,
Speaker 1: wild policy pivots, and more intrigue than your favorite spy movie,
Speaker 1: let's start with the freshest cyber drama. US federal agencies
Speaker 1: were jolted by a major CISA alert after a zero
Speaker 1: day hacking campaign targeting Cisco ASA devices was traced back
Speaker 1: to Chinese linked infrastructure hosted by wait for it, Tencent
Speaker 1: and China Net. Cisco calls the threat actor arcanedaor and
Speaker 1: claims high confidence in the Chinese nexus. The operation exploited
Speaker 1: flaws so persistent the usual system reabus and patch dents
Speaker 1: just didn't work. Sissus. Chris Ptera at a fedscoop panel
Speaker 1: minced no words on the near impossible scale of the problem.
Speaker 1: Over forty thousand new vulnerability disclosed last year alone, if
Speaker 1: you're keeping score, agencies have patched over ninety nine percent
Speaker 1: of them, mostly thanks to AI and automation. But still
Speaker 1: the threat feels like endless wacamole. Meanwhile, China's countermove. They
Speaker 1: just unleashed regulations mandating a one hour reporting window for
Speaker 1: any cyber security incidents impacting a province or ten million citizens. Aggressive, yes, effective,
Speaker 1: probably Compare this to USSEC rules, which give companies four
Speaker 1: days to fess up after a breach. China's making sure
Speaker 1: disruptions don't catch their pants down, and as usual, exporting
Speaker 1: their model for fast detection and response, think less bureaucracy,
Speaker 1: more's cyber ninja agility. On the restriction front, the FCC
Speaker 1: is slamming the door on Chinese controlled testing labs. Fifteen
Speaker 1: have now been denied recognition or been booted for national
Speaker 1: security risk. Why private labs certify if electronics bound for
Speaker 1: the US are safe and the FCC is paranoid about
Speaker 1: spyware or sneaky backdoors. As Ross Walker of the Rainy
Speaker 1: Freedom Project says, Chinese electronics firms like hick Vision, Dahoi,
Speaker 1: TP dash Link, and Dji are all over US schools
Speaker 1: and police stations. If these gadgets are talking to Beijing,
Speaker 1: it's not pillow talk. With seventy five per cent of
Speaker 1: electronics previously tested in China, Washington's new rules could seriously
Speaker 1: slow the global tech trade and shift the balance of manufacturing.
Speaker 1: TikTok fans, you're still not in the clear. President Trump,
Speaker 1: in an executive order this week gave Byte downs until
Speaker 1: December sixteenth to divest most of its stake in TikTok's
Speaker 1: US operations. Under the new law, US citizens must control
Speaker 1: the app. That's one hundred seventy million American users in limbo.
Speaker 1: Both sides are spinning the deal as a win, but
Speaker 1: the national security chess mutch continues, with Beijing pressing for
Speaker 1: more diplomatic concessions on Taiwan while TROMP pushes for economic
Speaker 1: co operation. Let's not skip the parade. China's military just
Speaker 1: rolled out its Information Operations Group, a cyber electronic force
Speaker 1: designed for future walls. This makes clear that Beijing is
Speaker 1: not just playing defense anymore. It's building out capabilities for
Speaker 1: data manipulation, fake news warfare, and lightning fast electronic strikes.
Speaker 1: Expert Foresight in Vidia's Jensen Hong warns that China is
Speaker 1: nanoseconds behind in chip making and that US restrictions risk
Speaker 1: driving innovation further underground. A recent deal allows Nvidia h
Speaker 1: twenty chips into China, but only after a hefty fifteen
Speaker 1: percent of those sales go to the U S. Government coffers.
Speaker 1: Choke Points like these mean semiconductor supremacy will be a
Speaker 1: story of regulatory horse trading and stealth development. Expect both
Speaker 1: sides to keep pushing the limits long term. These moves
Speaker 1: point to deeper bifurcation. Two tech universes, two cyber philosophies,
Speaker 1: one unrelenting rivalry. If you like your geopolitics high voltage
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