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

Alright listeners, it's Ting on the CyberPulse! You want the US-China defense update and the latest digital drama, so let’s dive right in—this week was a non-stop code sprint, ping-ponging between Washington, Beijing, and everywhere cyberspace reaches.

First up, the US rolled out not one, but several new defensive strategies aimed straight at Chinese cyber threats. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency—CISA, for those on a first-name basis with federal acronyms—pushed an emergency directive for federal agencies after researchers flagged a fresh vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange hybrid configs. Federal teams scrambled to patch up weaknesses before any more “Red Tiger” units could slip in for a little joyride on our servers. Sean Cairncross, now the White House’s national cyber director, is doubling down on cross-agency drills. His mission: get the public and private sectors working together like they're coding the same project, because, let’s face it, China’s cyber teams never work alone.

Government policies? President Trump’s AI action plan is all over federal offices. The National Institute of Standards and Technology—think of them as the cyber librarians—are mapping out security overlays for AI, setting up fresh standards to make sure our machine learners and autonomous drones don’t get hijacked by any bad actors on the other side of the Pacific. The General Services Administration also dropped the “USAi” platform, making it easier for agencies to test-drive and integrate AI models. Amazon Web Services even sweetened the deal with incentive credits to modernize agency tech stacks, which means less legacy code and way fewer rusty SQL injections lying around.

Private sector initiatives—ah, the juicy stuff. Def Con’s latest project is targeting water utilities, trying to shore up critical infrastructure that routinely hits the top ten list for “Places China Might Hack Next.” Vendors, asset owners, and government agencies are finally breaking through their silos, thanks to new info-sharing alliances and a push to end proprietary lock-ins that kept secrets bottled up like grandma’s old jams. Plus, there’s bipartisan move to renew the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, with the Information Technology Industry Council pushing hard for modernization, knowing full well Chinese threat actors feed off fragmented response times and slow defense protocols.

On the global front, you need to know the big news—over sixty-five nations just inked the Hanoi Convention, the first-ever multilateral UN treaty to take on cybercrime. Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski hailed it as a game changer for evidence sharing and cross-border digital crackdowns. Cambodia and Australia are on board too, building up cyber hygiene and best practices to fight off attacks that don’t respect any borders. This is the collective Avengers-assemble moment, but for cyber law, and you know I love a good squad.

Emerging protection tech? It’s all about convergence. AI, quantum, IoT—the alphabet soup is getting tastier, but also a lot messier. Europe, especially at the Cybersecurity@CEPS Summit, is strategizing on supply chain resilience, making sure their chips and sensors aren’t pinging home to Shenzhen every midnight. The US focus is on “secure by design” and harnessing quantum-resistant algorithms. If you’re not already encrypting twice and segmenting your networks, you’re behind!

To round it off, talks in Kuala Lumpur between US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and China’s Vice Premier He Lifeng are setting up a truce—temporary peace, maybe—around tech exports, TikTok, and critical minerals for chips. Rare earth controls are paused for now so your favorite devices don’t suddenly get a lot more expensive.

That’s it for this week on US-China CyberPulse. Thanks for tuning in! Don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss when Ting drops the latest and greatest in cyber, hacking, and digital diplomacy. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai.

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