This is your US-China CyberPulse: Defense Updates podcast.

Hey, I’m Ting—your friendly, ultra-nerdy sidekick with a knack for both Mandarin idioms and malware signatures. If you’ve blinked in the past few days, you might have missed a digital volley of new US moves to harden the country’s cyber defenses against China. Let’s jack in and get to it.

First off, Congress is firing up some serious new legislation. House Republicans are reintroducing the “Strengthening Cyber Resilience Against State-Sponsored Threats Act.” Picture Andy Ogles, Mark Green, and Andrew Garbarino all banding together like the Avengers, only instead of super-suits, they’re wielding policy documents. Their bill mandates a robust interagency task force—think CISA, the FBI, and more—laser-focused on combating cyber threats coming straight from the Chinese Communist Party. The directive? Investigate, assess, and mitigate threats against critical US infrastructure, with mandatory classified briefings to Congress every year. There’s no resting on laurels here—they want to know what China’s hackers are cooking, and make sure the stove’s off before anything gets burned.

On the executive side, both the Biden and Trump administrations are playing hot potato with restrictions on Chinese tech. The US government is pressing down on Chinese-made drones, cargo cranes at ports, and especially on the data front—remember that major executive order in February 2024 targeting Chinese links at US ports? Now, if you’re a port operator, you can’t just offload those big blue Chinese cranes and call it a day; there’s a checklist for cybersecurity risk too. And data brokers? If you’re selling American data to a Chinese buyer, the Justice Department now wants a word—or several pages of regulations—with you.

Let’s not forget TikTok. Congress passed a law this month: ByteDance has to sell off TikTok to mostly American ownership or lose access to US app stores. Trump extended the deadline a bit, but rest assured, the pressure’s on. And it’s not just TikTok. Congress has armed itself with new powers to ban or order divestment for other Chinese social media apps if they pose similar risks. It’s not just a tech war—it’s a regulatory full-court press.

Private sector? Oh, they’re not snoozing either. Companies are ramping up network monitoring and deploying next-gen detection tech, making it increasingly tough for Chinese threat actors to slip in undetected. Supply chain transparency is now a mantra. DHS is mulling over a national registry to flag Chinese-linked vendors—imagine a “no-fly list,” but for microchips and sensors instead of people on planes.

Internationally, the US is also beefing up cooperation—sharing threat intelligence, coordinating export controls, and, just maybe, encouraging allies to close the loopholes that funnel Chinese tech into sensitive infrastructure through friendly third countries.

That’s your CyberPulse—direct from the trenches, cutting through code and confusion. Stay sharp, encrypt everything, and remember: in cyberspace, nobody can hear you patch.

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