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

Hey listeners, Ting here, your go-to cyber sleuth on all things China hacks and digital dodgeballs. Picture this: I'm hunkered down in my neon-lit war room, screens flickering with the latest US-China CyberPulse, and whoa, the past week's been a rollercoaster of Salt Typhoon storms and chip showdowns. Let's dive right in, because if you're not encrypting your calls, Chinese hackers might just be eavesdropping on your grandma's bingo plans.

Senator Mark Warner dropped a bombshell at the Defense Writers Group, warning that China's Salt Typhoon crew—tied straight to the Ministry of State Security—is still burrowed deep in US telecom giants like Verizon and AT&T. This two-year espionage fest lets them snag unencrypted calls from practically every American. Warner's fuming over a "frustrating" briefing where the FBI claims networks are "pretty clean," but NSA docs scream ongoing intrusions. He's pushing bills for mandatory cybersecurity standards, but telecoms are balking at the billion-dollar rip-and-replace costs. Meanwhile, Huntress labs confirm Salt Typhoon's playbook: exploiting router vulns, sniffing packets with native tools, and tunneling data out via GRE and IPsec. FBI's even slapped a $10 million bounty on their heads, and Treasury sanctioned Sichuan Juxinhe Network Technology for pitching in.

On the policy front, Trump's fresh National Security Strategy screams "America First" cyber deterrence, prioritizing AI supremacy and encircling China without full-on brawl. But get this—White House AI czar David Sacks spilled to Bloomberg that Beijing's snubbing Nvidia's H200 chips, our "lagging" export ploy to steal Huawei's lunch. China Daily gloats they're pumping $70 billion into homegrown semis, with embassy spokesperson Liu Pengyu urging supply chain stability. Nvidia's shrugging it off, still chasing licenses, but Sacks admits the cat's out of the bag on our market-share gambit.

Private sector's firing back hard. ServiceNow's inked a potential $7 billion swoop for Armis—those Israeli cyber vets tracking sneaky devices in med, finance, and defense. It's their biggest buy yet, weaving AI threat-hunting into workflows amid Anthropic's bust of a Chinese AI-boosted hack op targeting 30 peeps. Republicans like Scott Perry are all-in on data center booms for the AI arms race, tweaking FERC rules so Big Tech foots grid upgrade bills without screwing ratepayers.

Internationally? UK's sanctioning Chinese firms drew Beijing's ire, with spokesman Guo Jiakun calling it "pernicious manipulation." China Daily blasts it as Five Eyes meddling, pushing their "community with a shared future in cyberspace" via Digital Silk Road. And upcoming CSIS chat with ex-DIA boss David R. Shedd on his book "The Great Heist" will unpack CCP's 30-year IP theft spree across chips and telecoms.

Emerging tech? NIST's rolling out post-quantum crypto guidance to thwart quantum-cracking threats, while fears mount over Chinese lidar in US gear—new bills aim to phase it out. Witty aside: if Salt Typhoon's your typhoon, Armis is the umbrella you didn't know you needed.

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