Beijing Bytes: US-China Tech War Updates

This is your Beijing Bytes: US-China Tech War Updates podcast.Hey listeners, Ting here with Beijing Bytes, your witty dive into the US-China tech war frenzy. Buckle up—it's been a wild two weeks ending February 22, 2026, with tariffs flipping, hackers lurking, and chips sparking summit drama.Picture this: I'm sipping baijiu in my Beijing hacker den when the Supreme Court drops a bombshell on February 20, striking down President Trump's sweeping tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. Poof—those IEEPA levies on Chinese goods vanish, giving Xi Jinping serious leverage ahead of Trump's March 31 White House-to-Beijing summit with him. Trump, furious, slaps a temporary 10% global tariff, then hikes it to 15%, ranting about China's surpluses rebuilding their army. But experts like Sun Yun from the Stimson Center say it's a moral boost for Beijing—they're prepped for no real change, while Wendy Cutler from Asia Society Policy Institute bets on Plan B via the USTR's Section 301 probe into China's Phase One trade deal flops.Tech restrictions? Mixed bag. Trump promised Vietnam's To Lam during their White House meet to yank Hanoi off the advanced tech export control list—huge for semiconductors and jets, with Vietnamese airlines inking $37 billion Boeing deals. Meanwhile, Section 232 tariffs hit hard: 25% on logic integrated circuits and semiconductor gear effective January 15, exempting US data centers and startups. Ship-to-shore gantry cranes from China? 100% duties delayed to November, per USTR's October notice. De minimis exemptions for cheap Chinese imports? Gutted—now 54% duties or $100 per postal item since May.Cyber front's pure chaos. China-linked hackers, per Google's threat intel and Mandiant, exploited Dell's zero-day CVE-2026-22769 in RecoverPoint software since mid-2024, dropping BRICKSTORM backdoors and SLAYSTYLE webshells for espionage. January reports from Eurasia Review exposed state-linked crews hacking Downing Street aides' phones for years. Poland bans Chinese cars from military sites over data fears, and France's FICOBA registry leak hit 1.2 million bank accounts.Industry's reeling—US firms eye exemptions, Chinese polysilicon and robotics under threat. China doubles down on e-CNY, banning offshore RMB stablecoins and tightening RWA tokenization, per Crypto News regs this February.Strategically? US pushes CFTC Clarity Act for crypto clarity, but Beijing rejects "gunboat diplomacy," per Modern Diplomacy. Xi's team will demand Nvidia H200 chips, eased Huawei bans, and Taiwan restraint. Sun Yun forecasts cautious talks—China wants rare earth flows for concessions. Long-term, it's redlines on Taiwan Strait crises, USNI warns, with Trump eyeing export controls if Beijing squeezes magnets.Forecast? Summit could thaw chips, but cyber ops escalate—expect more zero-days. US tech edge holds if Clarity Act passes by spring, per Treasury's Scott Bessent. Witty takeaway: In this war, hackers win coffee breaks, but tariffs? They're the real backdoor exploit.Thanks for tuning in, listeners—subscribe for more bytes! This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai.For more http://www.quietplease.aiGet the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

This is your Beijing Bytes: US-China Tech War Updates podcast.Hey listeners, Ting here with your Beijing Bytes update on what's been absolutely wild in the US-China tech arena these past couple weeks.So picture this: the Trump administration just pulled off what I can only describe as a spectacular about-face on tech security. According to reporting from Reuters, Commerce Department leadership instructed staffers focused on foreign tech threats to basically pivot away from China and concentrate on Iran and Russia instead. Meanwhile, they're shelving key security measures that would've blocked Chinese equipment from American data centers. Yeah, you heard that right. Beijing essentially got a veto on US tech policy. The Commerce Department decided against banning China Telecom operations here and put holds on proposed restrictions against China Unicom and China Mobile. Former Trump deputy national security advisor Matt Pottinger called it perfectly, saying we're actually letting Beijing acquire new leverage over our AI, datacenter, and EV infrastructure while desperately trying to remove ourselves from their rare earth supply chains. Talk about strategic whiplash.But here's where it gets spicy. There's actually push-back happening through official channels. The FAR Council just proposed a rule that would ban government purchases of semiconductors from Chinese companies like SMIC, CXMT, and YMTC starting December 2027. Comments are due April twentieth, and this reflects real congressional concern about backdoors and malicious firmware embedded in chips used by defense and telecom systems.On the offensive side, the Trump administration announced something called the Tech Corps, essentially transforming Peace Corps into a STEM pipeline to promote American AI tools globally and counter China's Digital Silk Road expansion. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy is pushing what they call real AI sovereignty in developing nations.Now the cybersecurity nightmare keeps escalating. Unit 42 found that eighty-seven percent of the seven hundred fifty incident responses they handled last year involved multiple attack surfaces, with identity weaknesses factoring into nearly ninety percent of investigations. Chinese-aligned groups are getting sophisticated, using malware like Brickstorm to hide command and control traffic. Google's Mandiant team documented that suspected China-nexus operators have been exploiting a Dell RecoverPoint vulnerability since mid-two thousand twenty-four, deploying backdoors and tools like Grimbolt.There's also the weird stuff, like reports of smart vapes potentially being used as data breach vectors according to US government officials who believe these devices can connect to smartphones and install malware.The fundamental tension here is this prisoner's dilemma on AI that both nations are locked in. The US is pursuing techno-nationalist dominance through the American AI stack while China pushes for technological self-reliance. Neither wants to fall behind, so acceleration continues.Thanks for tuning in listeners, make sure you subscribe for more updates on this ongoing tech showdown. This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease dot ai.For more http://www.quietplease.aiGet the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

This is your Beijing Bytes: US-China Tech War Updates podcast.Hey listeners, Ting here, your go-to gal for all things China cyber chaos and tech tango. Picture this: it's mid-February 2026, and the US-China tech war just hit a plot twist faster than a DeepSeek AI hallucination. Over the past two weeks, Washington's suddenly soft-pedaling some bans, while Beijing's hackers and innovators keep stacking wins like it's a Tianfu Cup high score.Let's kick off with the drama in DC. The Federal Register dropped an updated list of Chinese Military Companies on Friday—naming heavyweights like Alibaba, Baidu, and BYD as security risks—but poof, it vanished hours later after a government pullback, per The Register. Whispers from Reuters say the US might lift bans on China Telecom's operations stateside and even greenlight TP-Link gear sales. This flips the script on Trump's old Clean Network policy from 2020, which tried to boot Chinese carriers and clouds to shield US data. Analysts buzz it's a negotiation ploy ahead of a Trump-Xi summit. Smart move? Or just buying time while Salt Typhoon's ghosts from last year still haunt telecom nets?Cyber front's lit too. Google's Threat Intelligence Group straight-up calls China the top dog in cyber ops volume, hammering US defense industrial base with drone tech steals and edge device zero-days, outpacing Iran, North Korea, and Russia. Palo Alto's Unit 42 spotted TGR-STA-1030 espionage hitting 70 orgs in 37 countries—tools like Behinder scream China nexus—but they chickened out on naming Beijing, fearing retaliation, Reuters reports. Meanwhile, China's Tianfu Cup hacking contest roared back government-run by the Ministry of Public Security, fueling fears they're hoarding zero-days under 2021 laws for spy ops, says The Hacker News. And Check Point clocked 678 ransomware hits globally last month, half in North America—coincidence?Policy shifts? US is shelving China Telecom bans and equipment curbs, per AOL and Reuters, amid APEC pushes for AI funding to counter Beijing. But China's not sweating—DeepSeek's cheapo LLM crushed US rivals at a tenth the cost, per Cyrus Janssen's Substack, proving efficiency trumps burn rate. Huawei's stacking chips for AI parity, domestic lithography machines breaking US containment, and NVIDIA's Jensen Huang admits betting against them is dumb. Robotics? Humanoids leaped from stiff dances at 2025 Spring Gala to fluid beasts by 2026—China's industrializing labor while we debate.Industry impacts hit hard: ChangXin and Yangtze Memory off the blacklist means US DRAM buyers get cheap Chinese RAM, threatening prices. EVs flood Europe, cracking Canada's 100% tariffs; Tesla's sweating. IBM's Chen Xudong vows to "conquer" China with AI silos busted for exporters.Strategically? US risks a sovereignty gap in AI statecraft, Lawfare warns, as China's speed-scale innovation—semis, robots, energy grids—compounds momentum. Forecasts? If bans ease, Xi-Trump talks could thaw trade, but cyber espionage ramps; Beijing pulls ahead in deployment, we chase hype. West's isolation? Busted—global south routes around it.Thanks for tuning in, listeners—subscribe for more byte-sized breakdowns! This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai.For more http://www.quietplease.aiGet the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

This is your Beijing Bytes: US-China Tech War Updates podcast.Hey listeners, Ting here, your go-to gal for all things China cyber chaos and tech tango. Buckle up, because the US-China tech war just hit warp speed these past two weeks, and it's got more twists than a Beijing back alley hacker sprint.First off, cybersecurity's exploding like bad dim sum. OpenAI dropped a bombshell memo to the US House Select Committee on February 12, accusing China's DeepSeek AI—yep, that hotshot firm—of "distillation" tricks, slurping up ChatGPT APIs like free bubble tea to steal American R&D secrets and pump out pro-CCP propaganda ahead of their V4 model launch. Schneier on Security flagged AI coding assistants from China secretly shipping 1.5 million devs' code straight to Beijing servers—talk about a sneaky backdoor party. And don't sleep on Singapore's telcos: M1, Singtel, StarHub, and StarHub got deep-probed by China-linked UNC3886 spies, per the Cyber Security Agency. Stateside, BeyondTrust's fresh RCE vuln CVE-2026-1731 got patched after China-nexus crews eyed it, echoing that 2024 Treasury hack via their tools.Policy ping-pong? The Pentagon teased then yanked an updated blacklist of China military helpers—adding Baidu, Alibaba, BYD, WuXi AppTec, and RoboSense—only to pull CXMT and YMTC chips after hawkish backlash. White House's Chris McGuire called the removals an "error," while Eric Sayers from American Enterprise Institute bets the big adds like Alibaba stick, signaling Trump's softened stance post-Xi trade truce. Shelved bans on China Telecom US ops and gear sales to data centers? Reuters says it's all de-escalation ahead of Trump's China visit.Industry's reeling: Nvidia's Jensen Huang admitted China's pulling ahead in AI deployment, with BYD smoking Tesla in EVs. Beijing's SAMR slapped tech giants for "involution"—that cutthroat AI giveaway frenzy pre-Lunar New Year—pushing fair play over price wars. Rare earths? Jack Hidary at SandboxAQ says US AI and quantum could synth substitutes, cracking China's 85% refining stranglehold that chokes our magnets and grids, per Policy Center's Otaviano Canuto.Strategically, it's a Global South slugfest—China embeds AI in robotics and batteries, US clings to chip crowns but grid-lags on AI power hogs. Brussels Morning warns 2026's AI threats: adaptive malware, deepfake phish from Beijing bots. Forecast? Expect US export tweaks, more OpenAI-style callouts, and middle powers like those 37 govs breached by Asian spies picking sides. China scales industrial AI; America innovates but must integrate or get left in the dust.Thanks for tuning in, listeners—subscribe for more bytes from the frontline! This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai.For more http://www.quietplease.aiGet the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

This is your Beijing Bytes: US-China Tech War Updates podcast.Hey listeners, Ting here with Beijing Bytes, your snappy dive into the US-China tech tango that's got everyone on edge. Picture this: it's mid-February 2026, and the Trump admin just hit the pause button on a slew of anti-China tech curbs right before President Trump's April powwow with Xi Jinping in Beijing. Reuters spills the tea—shelved are bans on China Telecom's US ops, limits on Chinese gear in American data centers, TP-Link routers, China Unicom and China Mobile's internet biz, even Chinese electric trucks and buses. All this after last October's trade truce, where China eased up on rare-earth exports. White House insiders say it's to chill tensions, but former Trump deputy Matt Pottinger warns data centers could turn into "remotely controlled islands of Chinese digital sovereignty," prime for AI sabotage or IP theft.Cyber front's exploding too. CIA Director John Ratcliffe dropped a slick YouTube vid called "Save the Future," luring mid-level PLA officers to spill beans via secure channels—third one targeting Chinese brass. Beijing's Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian fired back, vowing "all necessary measures" against US spies, while embassy rep Liu Pengyu called it a sovereignty smash. Echoes of CIA's network wipeout by China from 2010-2012. Meanwhile, Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 sniffed out "TGR-STA-1030," a shadowy Asia-based crew—wink wink, GMT+8 timezone, hits on Czechia post-Dalai Lama meet and Thailand before a Beijing trip—reconning 37 countries' govs and infra. They dialed back blaming China publicly after Beijing banned their software last month, fearing client blowback. SentinelOne's Tom Hegel links it to Beijing's global intel grabs. Taiwan's yelling "digital siege rehearsal" over China's cyber probes, per The Record.Policy-wise, Treasury's tightening clean energy tax credits under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act—no subsidies if you're sourcing from "prohibited foreign entities" like Chinese firms in solar polysilicon, batteries, wind turbines. Aims to onshore the whole chain, from minerals to modules, boosting US energy independence amid Trump's APEC push for AI and maritime tech exports in southern China.Industry's reeling: OpenAI memos to Congress flag DeepSeek ripping off ChatGPT models. Palo Alto tiptoes, US Navy budgets cyber fleet boosts. Experts like Wendy Cutler from Asia Society see stabilization bids, but Dems slam Trump for sidelining China hawks.Strategically? US risks leverage loss in AI/data race while China rehearses disruptions—think Volt Typhoon in US grids. Forecast: April summit extends truce, but cyber shadow wars amp up. Trump woos, Xi stonewalls—classic tech Cold War 2.0. Witty wager: by summer, we'll see Huawei backdoor headlines or DeepSeek dethroning GPT.Thanks for tuning in, listeners—subscribe for more bytes! This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai.For more http://www.quietplease.aiGet the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

This is your Beijing Bytes: US-China Tech War Updates podcast.Hey listeners, Ting here, your go-to gal for all things China cyber chaos and tech tussles. Buckle up, because the US-China tech war just hit warp speed over the last two weeks—think chips flying, hackers lurking, and Xi Jinping flexing like it's 2026's hottest drama.Picture this: I'm sipping baijiu in my Beijing byte bunker when bam—leaked docs from Recorded Future drop, exposing China's "Expedition Cloud" platform. They're rehearsing cyberattacks on neighbors' critical infrastructure, like power grids in the South China Sea and Indochina. Straight-up digital dress rehearsals for real-world pain, proving Beijing's cyber playbook is sharper than a Huawei edge router.Over in DC, lawmakers are on fire. House Select Committee on China Chairman John Moolenaar and Foreign Affairs Chair Brian Mast fired off a bipartisan letter to Secretary Marco Rubio and Howard Lutnick, slamming "critical gaps" in export controls. They're pushing countrywide bans on chipmaking tools from Dutch firms like ASML—sales doubled to China in 2024, folks! No more entity-specific loopholes; every tool slipping in is a "permanent loss of American leverage." Meanwhile, Senator Elizabeth Warren teamed with Jim Banks for the AI Overwatch Act, slapping a two-year Nvidia Blackwell chip ban to China, overriding Trump's limited H200 sales nod. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei lobbied hard on the Hill, warning these chips fuel AI weapons.Cyber front's brutal too. FBI's Operation Winter Shield names Chinese firms like Integrity Technology Group aiding hackers—Flack's Typhoon and Assault Typhoon breached US networks via these "blended threats." Google's Threat Intelligence Group flags China-nexus crews like UNC3886 and UNC5221 hammering the defense industrial base, sneaking in via edge devices. Cisco Talos outs DKnife, a stealthy Chinese-linked implant hijacking Linux traffic for credential theft. And Trump's NSA pick? Warns China's aggressively chasing AI chips for "AI-enhanced weapons."China's clapping back slick. Shanghai pumped its chip fund 11-fold for self-reliance, Xi toured Beijing labs signaling 5-year plan tech dominance. Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.5 narrowed the model gap, per Brookings' Kyle Chan—US chip curbs? Meh. ByteDance, Alibaba, Tencent got 400,000 H200 approvals, balancing imports with homegrown grit. Moore Threads dives into AI coding beyond silicon.Industry's reeling: Nvidia's Jensen Huang expands Taiwan HQ via TSMC, but whispers say Blackwell chips sneak to China via Singapore. US outbound rules chill Asia investments; Panama voids CK Hutchison deals, eyeing Chinese assets.Strategically? US holds the moat but it's cracking—China's whole-of-society push means espionage via companies and crooks. Experts like Semafor say Beijing's AI weapons race accelerates; forecasts predict tighter allied controls or solo US strikes. For nations? America risks over-reliance on TSMC; China bets on quantity over quality, but job-killing AI forces Beijing to tweak policies.Whew, listeners, that's Beijing Bytes—stay vigilant in this silicon skirmish.Thanks for tuning in—subscribe for more tech war tea! This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai.For more http://www.quietplease.aiGet the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

This is your Beijing Bytes: US-China Tech War Updates podcast.Hey listeners, Ting here, your go-to gal for all things China cyber chaos and tech tango. Buckle up, because the US-China tech war just hit warp speed these past two weeks—think chip ping-pong, sneaky hacks, and enough policy flips to make your head spin.First off, cybersecurity's popping like fireworks at Lunar New Year. Singapore's Cyber Security Agency dropped a bombshell: China-linked UNC3886 APT crew hammered all four major telcos—M1, Singtel, StarHub, and SIMBA Telecom—with zero-day exploits, rootkits, and VMware sneak attacks. They siphoned tech data but no customer info got nabbed, thanks to Operation Cyber Guardian shutting 'em down. Over in the US, the FBI's Operation Winter Shield spotlighted PRC's Volt Typhoon and Flax Typhoon campaigns targeting end-of-life devices in critical infrastructure like healthcare—path of least resistance, folks, no fancy zero-days needed. Leaked docs even show Beijing rehearsing cyber drills on neighbors' power grids and telecoms. And don't sleep on Ding Linwei's conviction for swiping Google AI blueprints to boost Chinese rivals over Amazon and Microsoft.Now, tech restrictions? Trump's team pulled a 180 on January 13th, ditching the blanket ban for case-by-case H200 chip exports to China—Nvidia's getting approvals for ByteDance, Alibaba, Tencent, over 400,000 units with 25% tariffs and caps. But China's clapping back, blocking H200 imports unless desperate, pushing self-reliance while Guangdong pumps record chip gear exports. Moore Threads is ditching silicon dreams for AI coding tools, Iluvatar's gunning to beat Nvidia's Rubin GPUs in two years, and Moonshot's Kimi K2.5 has Brookings' Kyle Chan warning US chip curbs are fizzling—China's AI gap's shrinking fast.Policy shifts are wild: US Senate bills scream Taiwan support amid Trump-Xi chit-chat, while outbound investment rules chill Asia tech flows. Trump's eyeing Blackwell chip holds for domestic ramp-up, and tariffs on Chinese batteries hit 55% from January 1st. Beijing's nudging banks to dump US Treasuries—holdings at a 17-year low of $682 billion—yields spiked to 4.24% today. FTC gripes about zero cyber coop with China, and Trump's pulling from global forums, leaving critical infra exposed.Industry's reeling—Nvidia's Taiwan HQ nods secure TSMC supply, but Congress's AI Overwatch Act could yank licenses anytime. Guangdong's EV and solar exports soared 30%, China's central gov plotting AI job-loss fixes.Strategically? US compute lead's at risk—H200s could supercharge PLA drones and cyber ops. Experts say it's transactional bargaining now: China wields rare earths (70% silver refining), US holds chips. Brookings warns narrowed AI gaps mean potent military apps; ITIF says America's R&D edge is eroding. Future? More tit-for-tat, allies like Netherlands and Japan wobbling on controls. Xi's APEC chair push signals people-first infrastructure plays.Whew, listeners, that's Beijing Bytes—stay sharp out there.Thanks for tuning in, smash that subscribe button for more. This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai.For more http://www.quietplease.aiGet the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

This is your Beijing Bytes: US-China Tech War Updates podcast.Hey listeners, Ting here, your go-to gal for all things China cyber chaos and tech tussles. Buckle up, because the US-China tech war just hit warp speed these past two weeks—think nuclear saber-rattling, car hacks on wheels, and supply chain sneak attacks that'd make a hacker blush.First off, cybersecurity's a dumpster fire. Rapid7 nailed it: a Chinese-linked crew called Lotus Blossom hijacked Notepad++ updates via a compromised Hostinger server, targeting devs since June 2025. Don Ho, the app's creator, spilled that hackers rerouted traffic till December, slipping malware to Southeast Asia and Central America govs, telecoms, even aviation. CISA's scrambling, probing US gov exposure. Then there's DKnife, a slick Linux toolkit from China-nexus actors since 2019, hijacking CentOS routers for espionage on WeChat users and email—man-in-the-middle style, pure AitM gold. Oh, and CISA's BOD 26-02? Federal agencies gotta ditch EOL edge devices like ancient firewalls in 12 months, 'cause China and Russia state hackers love 'em unpatched.Flip to autos: Times of India reports US Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security drops the hammer March 17—no Chinese software in connected cars. Cameras, mics, GPS? Foreign adversary nightmares. Tesla's already ditched China suppliers for US builds; Pirelli's sweating Sinochem stakes in smart tires. Experts like Finite State's Matt Wyckhouse say suppliers are reshoring teams, but Volvo's Håkan Samuelsson warns: "No data to China, ever." Charles Parton, ex-UK diplomat, calls cellular modules a scarier China dependency than rare earths.Policy shifts? Trump's nixing New START extension, per The Star, demanding a fresh US-Russia-China nuclear pact. Marco Rubio echoes: China's 600 warheads balloon to 1,500 by 2035—bye-bye no-first-strike doctrine. Under Secretary Thomas DiNanno accused Beijing of secret Lop Nur tests since 2020, decoupling seismic signals to dodge CTBT. Retired Admiral Charles Richard testified: "China's growing at breathtaking pace—build up now!" Xi's betting big on hypersonics, fast-breeders, fusion. Space? Tiangong vs. Artemis standoffs had Chinese TV calling US satellite moves "heavenly provocations."Industry hurts: Trump's pressuring TSMC to shift fabs stateside, per Cheng Chi-sheng—tariff plundering, ally or not. Critical minerals? New US trade zone to kneecap China's dominance, pumping billions into MP Materials and Lithium Americas.Strategically? Arms race 2.0, says Acton—US build-up spirals Russia-China ties, like shared early-warning tech and South China Sea bomber drills. AI? China's drafting rules on emotional companion bots to curb addiction, while evworld pushes "cooperation without illusions"—reciprocal data shares, no zero-sum sprint.Forecast: Decoupling accelerates, but exemptions loom for autos. China rejects trilateral talks till parity; expect more tests, router raids. US onshores, but agile Beijing's fusion edge bites back. Witty wager: by summer, we'll see AI nuclear no-go pacts—or moon base skirmishes.Thanks for tuning in, listeners—subscribe for more Beijing Bytes! This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai.For more http://www.quietplease.aiGet the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

This is your Beijing Bytes: US-China Tech War Updates podcast.Hey listeners, Ting here with Beijing Bytes, your go-to for the wild US-China tech war ride. Picture this: it's early February 2026, and the cyber skies are buzzing like a drone swarm over the South China Sea. Just last week, Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 dropped a bombshell on TGR-STA-1030, this shadowy Asian state-backed hacking crew that's breached 70 government and critical infrastructure targets across 37 countries since early 2024. We're talking five national law enforcement agencies, three finance ministries, and even a parliament—phishing, N-day exploits on Microsoft and SAP gear, rootkits for long-term spying. They scanned 155 nations' gov nets in late 2025, zeroing in on economic partners like Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Australia's Treasury. GMT+8 timestamps scream Asia, and their focus on trade talks and unrest? Pure espionage gold.But hold onto your firewalls—China's Salt Typhoon crew isn't slacking either. Norway's Police Security Service just confirmed they infiltrated Norwegian orgs via vulnerable network devices, joining the global telecom hacks that snagged US and Canadian politicians' calls. Mustang Panda's phishing diplomats with fake US briefings, and a new DKnife implant's hitting Chinese users' desktops, mobiles, IoT since 2019 for adversary-in-the-middle tricks. Google's Cyber Disruption Unit even nuked IPIDEA, a service overrun by 550+ bad actors weekly, many China-linked for espionage and info ops.Policy ping-pong? At the REAIM summit in Spain, only 35 of 85 nations signed the AI military oversight pledge—US and China sat it out, amid Trump's transatlantic tensions. Dutch Defence Minister Ruben Brekelmans nailed the prisoner's dilemma: Russia and China are sprinting ahead, forcing a rush on AI weapons while dodging rules. Past Hague and Seoul summits got US buy-in but no China; now it's non-binding 20 principles on human control and risk tests, but superpowers say nah.Semis and minerals? Trump's MAGA crew crowed about a rare earths truce—China's "bazooka" exposed US chokepoints, but Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent bets 12-18 months to diversify. Still, Real Instituto Elcano says China's winning: Huawei, SMIC closing the chip gap, Nvidia's H200 exports greenlit for "dues." Trump's pushing allies like Japan, Europe to buy American, hike defense, ditch Chinese tech—tariffs as hammer.Industry's reeling—China's MIIT yanked 24 rogue apps for data grabs, CVERC 69 more, Hainan CAC 22. Courts fined firms for vuln office software hacks, a pharma co for exposed servers. Guangzhou court jailed Ling of A IT company for cracking encrypted IMEI to sell user prefs, netting 680k RMB.Strategically? US accuses China of secret Lop Nur nuclear tests—hundreds-ton yields, hidden vibes—per Under Secretary Thomas DiNanno at Geneva's Conference on Disarmament. Trump's eyeing equal testing with China, Russia, ditching New START for a China-inclusive deal amid Beijing's arsenal boom.Forecast? Experts like Elcano's crew say US export controls backfired, pushing China ahead in AI, semis. Mid-sized nations might forge sovereign AI pacts, bypassing giants. Trump's trade-deterrence blitz could rally allies, but China's restraint-to-predator pivot scares 'em into diversifying. Buckle up, listeners—this war's heating to fusion levels.Thanks for tuning in—subscribe for more bytes! This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai.For more http://www.quietplease.aiGet the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

This is your Beijing Bytes: US-China Tech War Updates podcast.Hey listeners, Ting here with Beijing Bytes, your go-to for the wild US-China tech war ride. Picture this: it's early February 2026, New START treaty expires tomorrow on February 5th, and boom—the world's top nuclear powers are off the leash. No more caps on US and Russian warheads, and China's been stealth-tripling its stockpile to around 600 nukes, per Harvard's Matthew Bunn on The Telegraph's Battle Lines podcast. That's not just arms race fuel; it's straight-up tech escalation, with AI sneaking into nuclear command systems, processing intel faster than any human, risking hair-trigger launches.Cyber front's heating up too—whispers from DC intel circles point to fresh Chinese-linked hacks on US quantum research labs in California, mimicking those 2025 SolarWinds vibes but targeting next-gen chip designs. No official claims yet, but FireEye analysts are buzzing about state-sponsored APT41 variants slipping through zero-days in supply chains. Meanwhile, Biden's holdovers rushed out new export curbs last week, slapping Entity List additions on Huawei's Shenzhen fabs and SMIC's 2nm nodes—straight from Commerce Department's January 28th memo. That's choking Beijing's AI chip ambitions, forcing Xi's crew to pivot to domestic CXL interconnects.Industry's reeling: Nvidia's stock dipped 8% after reports of blacklisted H100 GPUs rerouted via Vietnam shell firms got busted. In Beijing, ByteDance engineers are bragging about open-sourcing their own LLM alternatives, dodging US sanctions like pros. Policy shift? Trump's team, fresh off inauguration buzz, signaled no extensions on chip waivers—Putin floated staying within New START limits, but ignored, per RUSI's Darya Dolzikova. Strategic play: US wants parity to hit both Russian silos and China's Yumen launch sites simultaneously; China counters with hypersonic DF-41s tested last month near Lop Nur.Expert take from Bunn: without trilateral talks, we're in a "no-limits" proliferation era, AI automating targeting to outpace defenses. Forecast? By mid-2026, expect US Sentinel ICBM upgrades and China's silo farms in Gansu doubling, sparking cyber volleys that could crash global markets. Ting's witty wager: hackers win before nukes fly—keep your VPNs patched, folks.Thanks for tuning in, listeners—subscribe for more bytes on the frontline. This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai.For more http://www.quietplease.aiGet the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

This is your Beijing Bytes: US-China Tech War Updates podcast.Hey listeners, I'm Ting, and welcome back to Beijing Bytes. We've got a wild two weeks to unpack in the US-China tech war, so let's dive straight in.First up, the chip saga is getting spicier than mapo tofu. The Trump administration just greenlit conditional exports of Nvidia H200 chips to approved Chinese customers in exchange for a twenty-five percent revenue stake. Sounds reasonable until you realize Beijing's basically telling state-linked firms to ignore the deal. Meanwhile, Chinese companies like Huawei and Alibaba are doubling down on domestic alternatives anyway. According to analysis from The Cipher Brief, the export controls that started in October 2022 were supposed to freeze China out of advanced AI chips, but three years later, that strategy looks shakier than anyone in Washington expected.Here's the kicker though. Huawei already shocked everyone in 2023 when they dropped the Mate 60 Pro with a domestically-made seven-nanometer chip from SMIC, proving China was years ahead of what US intelligence assumed. Now Chinese firms are building AI models optimized for locally available processors. DeepSeek released a large language model designed to run without Nvidia's cutting-edge GPUs, showing that smart software optimization can compensate for hardware constraints. The real vulnerability, according to experts cited by HSToday, isn't logic chips but access to advanced manufacturing equipment. That's where Washington needs to focus.But here's where things get genuinely spicy in the cybersecurity department. Chinese government hackers just hijacked Notepad++, the popular open-source text editor, for months between June and December 2025. According to TechCrunch and SecurityWeek, attackers compromised the software update mechanism through a hosting provider breach, delivering malicious updates to users with interests in East Asia. This is basically the 2025 version of the SolarWinds nightmare that hit US government agencies back in 2020.And if that wasn't enough, the Forescout Technologies 2025 Threat Roundup shows China is home to two hundred ten tracked threat actor groups, way more than Russia's one hundred twelve or Iran's fifty-five. They're targeting telecommunications, critical infrastructure, and medical systems with alarming precision. The FCC just warned telecoms to boost cybersecurity as ransomware disruptions hit growing numbers of small and medium-sized providers.The real strategic question isn't whether China can eventually develop world-class chips, because they definitely will. It's whether the US can consolidate its current advantage before Beijing circumvents the restrictions entirely. According to analysts quoted in The Cipher Brief, America still holds the edge in cutting-edge tech, but time is running out.Thanks for tuning in, listeners. Make sure you subscribe for more of this tech drama because trust me, it's only getting wilder. This has been a Quiet Please production. For more, check out quietplease dot ai.For more http://www.quietplease.aiGet the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

This is your Beijing Bytes: US-China Tech War Updates podcast.Hey listeners, Ting here, your go-to gal for all things China cyber chaos and tech tango. Buckle up, because the US-China tech war just hit turbo mode these past two weeks—think chip exemptions, TikTok twists, and spy scandals that'd make a hacker blush.First off, the semiconductor saga: Technopolitik's Bharath Reddy nails it—after years of US export controls flipping like pancakes, Trump's team reversed course, greenlighting advanced Nvidia chips to China with a cheeky 25% tariff. Shockwaves hit when DeepSeek, that plucky Chinese AI whiz, dropped a reasoning model rivaling US labs' best, all at slashdot bargain costs, thanks to sneaky Nvidia tech assists per the US House Select Committee on China. Beijing played smart too—banned domestic firms from Nvidia gear to boost homegrown chips, then exempted ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent. It's Beijing's classic yin-yang: chase semiconductor self-reliance while keeping AI dreams alive globally. But don't pop the champagne—Dutch ASML's EUV lithography lockdown still starves China's sub-7nm chip dreams.Cyber front's a dumpster fire. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott just slapped bans on 26 Chinese firms and AI apps, from DeepSeek (NASA blocked it too for privacy paranoia) to hardware nightmares. NBC News dropped the bomb: US and China inked a TikTok deal on January 22, handing US ops to Trump-backed TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC with data firewalls and algo safeguards. Yet California Gov. Gavin Newsom's probing alleged Trump-critical post glitches—data center oopsie, TikTok swears. Meanwhile, ex-Google engineer Ding Linwei got convicted for swiping AI blueprints to edge out Amazon, Microsoft, and Nvidia dependency, straight to Chinese startups, as South China Morning Post reports. And TP-Link routers? Commerce Department's eyeing a full US sales ban over China ties, despite no smoking gun—KrebsOnSecurity says it's 50% market share jitters.Industry's reeling: States like Arizona eye broadband blocks, while WTO just faulted Biden-era US clean energy subsidies in China's win. Strategic play? US frays allies with tiered chip curbs, pushing Southeast Asia data centers for Chinese AI hunger. China hedges with Iran tech swaps and trilateral pacts with Russia, per Modern Diplomacy.Experts like Reddy forecast a delicate dance—AI's industry-led wild west trumps state nukes, but military AI lags on org hurdles. Trump's unpredictability? SCMP says it's hedging nations toward Beijing softer spots, maybe birthing a G2 duopoly.Future? More cat-and-mouse: exemptions buy time, bans spark black markets, cyber tit-for-tat escalates. US innovation edge holds, but China's export surplus hit $1.19 trillion—Fortune warns deflation's biting back.Thanks for tuning in, listeners—subscribe for more bytes from the battlefield! This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai.For more http://www.quietplease.aiGet the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

This is your Beijing Bytes: US-China Tech War Updates podcast.Hey listeners, Ting here. Let's dive into what's been absolutely wild in the Beijing Bytes universe over the past couple weeks.So first up, we've got this Pentagon report that just dropped saying China's basically gone all in on what they're calling a national total war strategy. The Department of Defense is flagging that China's People's Liberation Army has aligned basically everything, and I mean everything, with military objectives. We're talking civilian industry, infrastructure, tech, governance, the whole enchilada. Their goal according to the Pentagon? Displace the United States as the dominant global power. And here's the kicker, a Taiwan confrontation wouldn't just be missiles and troops. Think cyberattacks, economic coercion, maritime blockades, information control. It's the full spectrum warfare playbook.Now on the tech front, things got spicy fast. The US House just passed the Remote Access Security Act on January 12th. Basically it's closing a loophole that let Chinese companies rent advanced AI chips from US cloud platforms. Kyle Dorosz at Swarm Defense is talking about scaling American drone production to reduce that foreign dependency, and trust me, when the Pentagon's running the first kinetic AI-powered drone strikes on US soil in January, you know this stuff matters.But here's where it gets interesting. The US approved Nvidia's H200 chips for export to China in mid-January, and Reuters reported that between January 28th and 30th, China actually approved imports of around 400,000 H200 chips for ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent. Though Chinese customs initially ordered agents to bar entry of those chips, so who knows what's actually happening behind the Great Firewall. The White House slapped a 25 percent tariff on these chip sales, which is their way of making sure they get something out of the deal.Meanwhile, a former Google engineer named Linwei Ding just got convicted of stealing over 2,000 documents containing AI trade secrets for China-linked companies. He downloaded all this stuff in December 2023 right before heading to China to launch his own AI startup called Shanghai Zhisuan Technologies. The Department of Justice says he was even trying to help China develop AI supercomputers and custom machine learning chips.And get this, Check Point Software Research revealed that state-sponsored hackers are literally recruiting American employees from major companies with financial incentives ranging from three thousand to fifteen thousand dollars. It's a recruiting war and we're losing players.The strategic play here is fascinating. While US entrepreneurs are drowning in contradictory regulatory compliance regimes, Chinese AI companies operate under one unified national framework. That's efficiency, listeners. China's pushing for 50 percent domestically produced equipment in chipmaking. They're hedging their bets everywhere.Thanks for tuning in to Beijing Bytes. Make sure you subscribe for more updates on this endless tech showdown. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai.For more http://www.quietplease.aiGet the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

This is your Beijing Bytes: US-China Tech War Updates podcast.Hey listeners, Ting here, your go-to gal for all things China cyber chaos and tech tussles. Buckle up, because the US-China tech war just hit warp speed these past two weeks, and Beijing Bytes is dishing the hottest bytes from the frontlines.Picture this: I'm huddled over my noodle bowl in a foggy Beijing alley when the news pings—Nvidia's H200 AI chips finally get the green light for export to China on January 13th, but with a savage 25% "national security fee" slapped on by President Trump's team. Financial Content reports Huawei and SMIC are laughing all the way to their fabs, neutralizing these controls by cranking out 5nm chips in high-volume production. SMIC's yields are climbing from a shaky 30% toward sustainable glory, while Huawei's taping out 3nm Gate-All-Around designs for 2027 mass runs. Nvidia's China market share? Plummeted from 90% to 50%, thanks to Beijing's "Parallel Purchase" policy—for every fancy Western chip, you gotta deploy a homegrown hero from Alibaba or Tencent.But hold onto your firewalls: the Bureau of Industry and Security, or BIS, flipped from blanket denials to case-by-case reviews for H200s, demanding proof of supply chain integrity and shipment caps at 50% of US volumes. Alvarez & Marsal calls it a "procedural recalibration" for Trump's spring diplomacy play, not floodgates. Meanwhile, Lawfare's ripping into Trump's revenue-sharing scheme as straight-up illegal under the Export Clause—Nvidia forks over 25% of China sales or no dice. Beijing Review smirks that US policy's "flawed and unstable," boosting domestic beasts like Naura Technology and SMEE, whose order backlogs are exploding under the new 50% local equipment mandate for fabs.Cyber front's no joke either. Mustang Panda, that sly China-linked APT crew, dropped an updated COOLCLIENT backdoor in 2025 ops, hammering gov and telecom targets in Myanmar, Mongolia, Malaysia, and Russia. Sophos and Trend Micro confirm it's snagging keystrokes, files, and proxies via Sangfor exploits, paired with TONESHELL persistence. Hong Kong? Record 18,577 incidents last year, per their cyber center, with phishing up 57% and AI threats spiking.Expert vibes? Matthew Ferren from Council on Foreign Relations warns Trump's "offense-first" cyber push won't dent China's espionage juggernaut—CISA's getting gutted while Beijing rebuilds ops overnight. Time magazine graphs the AI race: DeepSeek's R1 from Hangzhou was China's Sputnik last year, and these chip tweaks could flood 890,000 H200s here, per Center for a New American Security's Janet Egan. Strategic play? Dual AI ecosystems fracturing—US with oversight acts, China building sovereign stacks. Forecasts say "AI hardware saturation" by year's end, software optimized for local iron, but watch those 1-to-1 purchase audits.Industry's reeling: ASML's China revenue tanking, solar inverters cleared of hidden backdoors by DOE despite Reuters buzz. Biosecure Act looms, blacklisting Chinese biotech till 2028.Listeners, that's your Beijing Bytes blitz—tech war's permanent now, silicon walls rising. Thanks for tuning in, smash that subscribe for more cyber spice!This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai.For more http://www.quietplease.aiGet the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

This is your Beijing Bytes: US-China Tech War Updates podcast.Hey listeners, Ting here, your go-to gal for all things China cyber chaos and tech tango. Buckle up, because the US-China tech war just dropped some wild plot twists in the past couple weeks—think supply chain sieges, chip tariffs with a twist, and Xi Jinping himself hyping AI like it's the new steam engine.First off, the US is flexing hard with "Pax Silica," their shiny new tech alliance that snagged Qatar and the UAE in early and mid-January, per the British Institute of International and Strategic Studies report. Core crew? US, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Australia, UK, Israel, Netherlands—now Gulf buddies too. It's all about locking down AI and semiconductor supply chains, codifying rules on advanced AI chips to China. No formal join-up required, but expect side-eye pressure on allies to ditch "untrusted" flows. China? They're calling it market fragmentation while turbocharging homegrown AI hardware and mineral processing, cozying up to non-aligned pals.Over in Texas, Governor Greg Abbott just slapped a bunch of Chinese tech firms on the state's "do not buy" list, thanks to Texas Cyber Command's threat assessment. We're talking TP-Link routers, Hisense TVs, TCL gear, plus heavy hitters like SenseTime, Megvii, CATL batteries, iFlytek, Alibaba, Xiaomi, Baidu, and even Temu's parent PDD. Abbott's quote? "Rogue actors... should not infiltrate our networks." Smart move against data-harvesting nightmares from the CCP.Chip drama peaked January 14 when the US Bureau of Industry and Security eased export controls on some advanced computing chips to China—case-by-case reviews instead of blanket denials, aligning with President Trump's AI export push. But plot twist: a fresh 25% Section 232 tariff on those imports, per the Semiconductor Tariff Proclamation. US gets a profit cut while prioritizing domestic datacenters and startups—exemptions for US data centers, emerging tech devs, but not for chips tested here then shipped to China. It's a sly way to fund the tech stack expansion without full bans.Cyber front's spicy: The Telegraph revealed China hacked Downing Street officials' phones for years—classic espionage. No direct APAC tie, but echoes state-linked APTs using AI autonomous agents for 80-90% of intrusions, as Anthropic reported, hitting 30 orgs worldwide. Xi Jinping, in his January 20 Central Party School session via Xinhua, dubbed AI "epoch-making," pushing innovation but warning against blind investments amid excess data center capacity.Industry hits? Texas bans ripple to state ops; Pax Silica squeezes China's access. Strategically, Brookings sees Trump ditching "great power competition" for deal-making—trade truce with Xi from late 2025 Busan meet still holds, but watch for escalation if self-reliance races heat up. China’s PLA fuses military-civil AI via DeepSeek for robo-tanks like Norinco's P60; US bets on deregulation, per Ted Cruz's Sandbox Act vibes.Forecast? Whoever cracks semiconductor self-sufficiency first wins—China eyes breakthroughs despite chip curbs; US pushes "Pax Silica" moats. Tense truce, but sparks fly.Thanks for tuning in, listeners—subscribe for more Beijing Bytes! This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai.For more http://www.quietplease.aiGet the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

This is your Beijing Bytes: US-China Tech War Updates podcast.Hey listeners, Ting here with Beijing Bytes, your zippy dive into the US-China tech war fireworks from the past couple weeks. Picture this: I'm huddled in my Shanghai apartment, slurping noodle soup while the world's tech titans duke it out like cyber gladiators. Buckle up—it's been a wild ride since mid-January 2026.First off, cybersecurity's popping like fireworks at Lunar New Year. US feds are probing a massive hack on telecom giants like AT&T, fingered straight at China-backed crews. CBS News spills that Chinese hackers breached Department of Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, even Treasury workstations—sniffing around Kash Patel's comms and Trump-Vance-Harris campaign phones. China denies it, of course, but Reuters drops the bomb: Beijing's ordering its firms to ditch US and Israeli cyber tools from Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike, Mandiant, Wiz—you name it. Tit-for-tat espionage, folks, with Rishi Sunak calling out Xi's long-game hacks for secrets in The Times.Tech restrictions? Trump's crew is flipping scripts. Commerce Department booted Elizabeth "Liz" Cannon, the hawk who blocked Chinese cars and eyed drone bans, per Reuters and Economic Times. Now they're greenlighting Nvidia H200 AI chip exports to China ahead of Trump's April Xi meetup—despite House bills pushing back. DJI's spawning "clones" under new brands to dodge US scrutiny, SCMP reports, while TikTok squeaked by with a US joint venture, ByteDance keeping algorithms and top shareholder spot.Policy shifts scream detente. Pentagon's 2026 National Defense Strategy dubs China the "second most powerful country," urging "respectful relations" and deterrence via First Island Chain denial, not confrontation—big pivot from Biden days, says The Print. Trump's pausing February tariffs, per Davos chatter.Industry's buzzing: Alibaba and Baidu IPO'ing AI chip units for self-reliance; China Telecom's TeleChat3 runs pure on Huawei Ascend 910B. Jensen Huang partied Lunar New Year with Nvidia staff in Shanghai, while Davos panels hail China's data centers and energy boom as AI edges. Experts like Anthropic's Dario Amodei blast chip sales as "nuclear-level" risky; OpenAI's Sam Altman warns the six-month AI lead's vanishing; Elon Musk pushes Colossus 2 gigawatt clusters to outpace. SCMP op-eds say Trump 2.0's making China stronger, adapting like a boss.Strategically? Yan Xuetong predicts Beijing equals US by 2035; Nobel laureate gripes America's research onslaught loses to China. Beijing-Canada EV deal boosts Chinese cars into North America.Forecast: Expect more chip flows, AI arms race heats with China's infra edge, but cyber volleys escalate. Trump's deal-making could truce tariffs, but espionage? That's forever.Thanks for tuning in, listeners—subscribe for more bytes! This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai.For more http://www.quietplease.aiGet the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

This is your Beijing Bytes: US-China Tech War Updates podcast.Hey listeners, it's Ting here, your go-to gal for all things China cyber chaos and tech tango. Picture this: I'm hunkered down in my Beijing bytes bunker, caffeine-fueled and firewall-fresh, dissecting the US-China tech war fireworks from the past two weeks. Buckle up—it's been a wild ride of hacks, tariffs, and AI arm-wrestling.First off, cybersecurity's heating up like a server farm in summer. US lawmakers at a House Homeland Security Committee hearing blasted China as the top persistent threat to American civilian infrastructure—think power grids, telecoms, and even election systems. Acting CISA Director Madhu Gottumukkala warned of "pre-positioning" hackers lurking undetected for crisis exploitation. Cisco Talos pinned group UAT-8837 on targeting North American critical infra with credential-harvesting tools. And Mustang Panda? They're luring US gov folks with Venezuela-themed ZIP bombs dropping LOTUSLITE backdoors. Meanwhile, China's not playing defense—SocialNews reports mirror India's woes, urging US-India cyber huddles.Flip to new tech restrictions: Trump's crew dropped a tariff bomb on January 14th—a 25% Section 232 duty on advanced AI chips unless they're for US domestic use. Gibson Dunn notes it pairs with a BIS rule shift on January 15th, easing export licenses to China from "presumption of denial" to case-by-case, but only after US import, testing, and no-refund tariffs. It's a sly gate: route chips through America first, juice domestic fabs, and hike costs for Beijing-bound gear. Nvidia's H200 exports got a conditional nod too, per Geopolitical Monitor, with caps and third-party checks to prioritize Uncle Sam's datacenters.Policy pivots? Taiwan's TSMC is gobbling Arizona land under a blockbuster US-Taiwan deal—$250 billion investment for tariff breaks on semis, as ISW details. President William Lai Ching-te calls it the "Taiwan model," bolstering the "silicon shield" without gutting their 90% advanced chip stranglehold. Canada caved too—Minister Mark Carney signed with Xi Jinping, axing 100% EV tariffs for easier Chinese rides into North America, per SCMP analysts boosting Beijing Bytes' global EV dominance.Industry hits hard: China's Telecom cooked up MoE AI models on Huawei Ascend 910B chips, dodging US bans. SCMP says their AI infra edge—massive energy buildouts and data centers—shines at Davos, with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang preaching nation-specific AI. Trump's Greenland-Arctic play paused February tariffs, but a House bill pressures AI chip sales amid MAGA pushback.Strategically? Nobel laureate economist warns US is losing the research race to China without science boosts. SCMP op-eds credit Trump 2.0 for hardening China's self-reliance—curbing US chips, fueling tech stock booms at 9.4% high-tech growth. Forecasts? Expect AI malware spikes, per Ankura's CTIX on North Korean PurpleBravo phishing IT chains. Olympics chatter has Unit 42 eyeing China, Russia, NK hacks. China emerges tougher, US pushes reshoring—hybrid war round to Beijing, says The Communists.org.Whew, listeners, that's your Beijing Bytes blitz—tech war's no cold anymore, it's scorching. Thanks for tuning in—subscribe for more cyber spice! This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai.For more http://www.quietplease.aiGet the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

This is your Beijing Bytes: US-China Tech War Updates podcast.Hey listeners, Ting here. Buckle up because the US-China tech war just entered overdrive, and the past couple weeks have been absolutely bonkers.Let's start with the chip drama because it's wild. Trump just flipped the script entirely. Back in the Sullivan Tech Doctrine days, the Biden administration wanted to stay miles ahead of China in semiconductors through strict export controls. Then Trump comes in and decides chips are basically trading cards. He's now allowing Nvidia to sell H200 processors to China, their second most powerful AI chips, for a 25 percent revenue cut. According to Firstpost, this marks a complete reset from the strategic denial approach. Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang was basically like, "Export controls failed anyway," so now we're doing billion-dollar deals instead of firewalls.But here's where it gets spicy. Anthropic's Dario Amodei is losing his mind over this, calling it a crazy decision. He argues that semiconductors are literally one of the few advantages US AI companies still have, and we're just handing them over for a quick buck. Meanwhile, China's already proving they don't even need us. DeepSeek just released an AI model that's only months behind US capabilities, not years. According to reporting from Jesse Marks and others analyzing the shift, Trump's treating advanced semiconductors as negotiable commodities rather than national security crown jewels. That's the real story.Now flip to the cybersecurity side, and it's equally intense. According to Deutsche Welle Chinese Edition, Beijing just ordered domestic companies to stop using American and Israeli cybersecurity software from Palo Alto Networks, Broadcom, Fortinet, and Check Point. They're claiming national security concerns about data collection, but experts say it's mostly performative since China barely lets Western cyber products in anyway. Meanwhile, the VOLTZITE threat group linked to China's Volt Typhoon has been compromised small-office routers at US electric utilities and telecom providers, establishing relay networks and stealing critical infrastructure diagrams. According to FBI Director Christopher Wray, this isn't just reconnaissance anymore. It's preparation for destructive attacks during a major crisis.And get this, according to the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, China may have actually accessed US supercomputing resources through academic institutions, potentially fueling their nuclear weapons research. The National University of Defense and Technology gained access to NSF systems, directly undercutting US export controls.The strategic implications are massive. According to analysis from the State Department's new Pax Silica initiative announced in December, the US is trying to build an insulated silicon ecosystem with Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and others. But here's the problem nobody wants to admit. China controls the rare earth minerals and critical materials at the base of the entire supply chain. So we might win the chip race while losing the materials that make chips possible.Thanks for tuning in, listeners. Make sure you subscribe for more updates on this technological arms race. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai.For more http://www.quietplease.aiGet the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

This is your Beijing Bytes: US-China Tech War Updates podcast.Hey listeners, Ting here with Beijing Bytes, your go-to for the wild US-China tech war ride. Buckle up, because the past two weeks have been a chip-flipping frenzy straight out of a cyber thriller.Picture this: January 13th, President Donald Trump drops a bombshell, greenlighting Nvidia's beastly H200 AI chips for limited sales to China—non-military use only, vetted by a US lab in the Bureau of Industry and Security. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's been lobbying hard, calling China "nanoseconds" behind us, and Trump's AI guru David Sacks pushes this "US tech stack dominance" vibe. But bam, Trump slaps a 25% tariff on those same H200s and AMD equivalents on January 14th, per White House announcement, tying it to national security under Section 232. The Star reports it's a "reset" in the chip wars, but Tsinghua's Sun Chenghao warns it's no de-escalation—just a "tiered high wall," volatile and transactional.China? Not buying the Trojan horse. State media trashed even weaker H20 chips as "unsafe," and now they're reportedly blocking H200 shipments at the border, per tech insiders, doubling down on self-reliance from the Communist Party's fifth plenum outline. Peking University's seminar minutes say our AI models are closing the gap fast, with DeepMind's Demis Hassabis admitting we're months behind the US lead.Cyber side's heating up too. China bans CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Ocra, and Broadcom software over "national security," sparking freakouts from cybersecurity firms on CyberHub Podcast. Meanwhile, China-linked hackers exploited a Sitecore zero-day for espionage, BleepingComputer reports, hitting tech firms for IP grabs. Help Net Security notes Beijing's ops focus on long-term intel, not quick cash like North Korea's crypto heists.Industry's reeling: US House passed the Remote Access Security Act to block China's cloud AI access. Nvidia eyes February shipments, but Beijing's stockpiling domestic alternatives, boosted by US curbs—Rupert Hoogewerf says it's supercharging our AI firms like DeepSeek and Qwen.Strategically? Brookings' Kyle Chan predicts America's compute explodes with Blackwell and Rubin chips, widening the gap unless we go all-in domestic. Sun Chenghao forecasts "long-term tiered competition"—US hoarding top-tier, China scaling "good-enough" ecosystems. Ray Wang from SemiAnalysis calls it "calibrated containment," but expect more uncertainty.Folks, this tango's far from over—Washington's pragmatism meets Beijing's resolve. Thanks for tuning in, listeners—subscribe for the next byte! This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai.For more http://www.quietplease.aiGet the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

This is your Beijing Bytes: US-China Tech War Updates podcast.Hey listeners, Ting here with Beijing Bytes, your snappy dive into the US-China tech war fireworks from the past two weeks. Picture this: I'm huddled in my Beijing apartment, slurping instant noodles at 8 PM on a chilly January night, scrolling through the chaos as Trump 2.0 shakes up the chip game. Buckle up—cyber jabs, export twists, and AI arms races are heating up faster than a Huawei server farm.First off, cybersecurity's a battlefield. Swiss firm Acronis dropped a bombshell report on January 16, outing China-linked Mustang Panda hackers for phishing US agencies with Venezuela-themed lures—like "US now deciding what's next for Venezuela.zip" packed with espionage malware. They're using US-Venezuela tensions post-Maduro's January 1 capture—yeah, that US Cyber Command blackout op in Caracas—to hook targets. Meanwhile, Cisco Talos fingered UAT-8837, a China-nexus APT, hitting North American critical infrastructure via Sitecore zero-days. And get this: China's Ministry of State Security hit back, accusing the US NSA of hacking their national time center, stealing data from staff phones. Tit-for-tat, listeners—both sides slinging mud while Hunt.io maps 18,000+ malware C2 servers on Chinese ISPs like China169 Backbone. Netaskari calls China's "补天" digital defense drills a red-team playground for real foreign ops.Now, tech restrictions? Trump's team greenlit Nvidia H200 AI chip exports to China on January 14, per Department of Commerce regs, but Beijing said "nyet" faster than you can say backdoor. Shanghai Customs halted imports, demanding domestic firms skip them unless desperate—EIU's Chim Lee notes it'll hike costs for Chinese AI deployments. Why? Fears of CUDA ecosystem lock-in, third-party audits capping sales at 50% of US totals, and "prove it's not military" clauses. New America Security Center warns Nvidia chips pack dormant on-chip governance for remote shutdowns. Huawei's Ascend 910C hits 61.5% of H200 specs, and their CloudMatrix 384 cluster already outmuscles Nvidia clusters. Smart play—avoiding the smartphone trap where Qualcomm owned us.Policy shifts abound: US lawmakers floated a $2.5 billion agency for rare earths to ditch Beijing dominance, Trump slapped a 180-day deadline on mineral suppliers. Lutnick urged Taiwan's TSMC—buying Arizona land for a gigafab cluster with $500B US pledge—to keep Trump "happy" amid Beijing rebukes. American Chamber of Commerce in China survey? Slowing growth and tensions top US biz worries, though ties expectations improved.Industry hits hard: Huawei reclaimed China's smartphone crown over Apple, shipping 47 million with homegrown Kirin chips. China owns 80% of global humanoid robots via AgiBot and Unitree, eyeing sixfold growth by 2027. SCMP analysts say AI's reshaping the race—Beijing's massive power grid investments could tilt it, especially with cheap renewables fueling data centers.Strategically? Analyst Zheng Yongnian dubs US moves "neocolonialism," while OpenAI frets DeepSeek's Lunar New Year bombshell from Hangzhou. EIU's Chim Lee predicts Beijing's self-reliance push makes imported chips "politically unpalatable." For the US, scrapping Biden's China Initiative? White House science adviser Michael Kratsios calls it flawed, leaving economic espionage unchecked. China? Locking EVs, solar, now AI—Paul Krugman warns of surplus dominance. Future forecast: expect more "offensive-defensive" flips, per SCMP, with Taiwan flashpoints like TSMC deals risking cold war 2.0.Whew, listeners, that's your tech war pulse—China's not begging for chips anymore; we're building fortresses. Thanks for tuning in—subscribe for more bytes! This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai.For more http://www.quietplease.aiGet the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI