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

Right, let’s dive straight into what’s hot in the cyber trenches between the US and China this week—I’m Ting, your digital diplomat, codebreaker, and part-time sentry at the firewall. Spoiler alert: the past few days have been all about leaks, lockdowns, and a quantum leap forward in alliances. So buckle in.

Let’s start with a shocker that landed like a zero-day exploit—on September 11, the Great Firewall of China sprang the mother of all leaks. 500 gigabytes of internal documents, source code, and logs waltzed out of Geedge Networks, thanks to some unknown—but thoroughly appreciated—actors. This isn’t just local gossip: the blueprints for China’s censorship tech are now floating around, and the details show these tools aren’t just for home use. According to analysis by WIRED, countries like Myanmar, Kazakhstan, and Ethiopia have bought into Suite Fang Binxing’s 'Made in Beijing' surveillance solutions. Privacy advocates everywhere are clutching their VPNs.

Meanwhile, in Washington, US policymakers wasted no time stepping up their security game. BlackRock, a giant with more money than some nation-states, banned all company devices from crossing into China. No laptops, no work phones – only a clean, temporary loaner phone is allowed on trips. No VPN access to internal systems, not even on a personal vacation. BlackRock’s IT risk team is probably still high-fiving. This move isn’t just BlackRock being paranoid—more US companies are adopting similar rules to plug every possible data leak point in the face of rising state-sponsored cyber threats.

You’d think the US government would be running a tight operation in this climate, right? Sorry, not so much. According to a new watchdog report, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) managed to misfire on its big-ticket cyber talent retention program. Millions went to employees who didn’t even specialize in cybersecurity—hello, paperwork and process woes! The risk? Losing the real cyberwarriors just when the threat is ramping up.

But it’s not all domestic debugging. On the international front, President Trump and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer are poised to ink a 'technology partnership' focused on quantum computing—because nothing says “we distrust Beijing” like building a next-gen encryption wall together. This deal comes at a time when Washington just slapped 23 more Chinese companies on an export control blacklist and Beijing, with an elegant pirouette, announced new investigations into US chip exports. Scott Bessent, the US Treasury Secretary, is in Madrid this week, hoping that more face time equals less tariff tennis.

And over in the standards arena, China is rolling out new national rules for identifying AI-generated content—every deepfake and synthetic text must be traceable—or at least, in theory. There’s also fresh guidance for counting and classifying cyberattacks, which, if nothing else, might mean a little less finger-pointing and a little more “let’s share intel” between US and Chinese cyber teams. That’s the dream, folks.

All in all, this week’s US-China cyberpulse is a mash of tightening defenses, corporate crackdowns, personnel fumbles, and cross-continental showdowns—plus one massive helping of the best espionage drama you could ask for. Thanks for tuning in. Don’t forget to subscribe for more hacking hijinks. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai.

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