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