This is your Tech Shield: US vs China Updates podcast.

You want the download on the US-China cyber chess match from the last few days? Strap in, I’m Ting—your favorite cyber sleuth and snark machine.

Let’s jump right to what’s sizzling. Earlier this week, the US government issued a full-throated warning to allies: steer clear of Chinese satellites for civilian communications. Why? The fear is that contracts with companies like China Satcom are more than just business—they’re the soft underbelly for Beijing to sneak in surveillance or even sabotage. American officials worry these satellites could be the launchpad for gathering intelligence or, in someone’s bad dream, facilitating knockouts of Western comms networks if tensions ever boil over.

Speaking of tension, the cyber gloves are fully off. Just as China’s Harbin Public Security Bureau accused three NSA agents of hacking the Asian Winter Games, US agencies have been triaging the fallout of last year’s Salt Typhoon breach. That hack, carried out by a crew of China-backed threat actors, still ripples through the American telecom sector, exposing persistent weaknesses. In the halls of Congress, you’ve even got senators freezing the top spot at CISA—the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency—over worries that our telecoms are still as leaky as a bottomless boba straw.

This week, US cyber defense teams have been busy. Emergency patching has accelerated for vulnerabilities in both government and private sector telecom infrastructure. Major telcos rolled out a wave of software updates, with Verizon and AT&T racing to seal off the types of backdoors used by Salt Typhoon. Government advisories are dropping almost daily, highlighting fresh indicators of compromise and urging the rapid adoption of zero trust architecture—which, let’s face it, is the cybersecurity equivalent of switching to oat milk: everyone talks about it, but only the truly paranoid commit.

On the tech frontier, there’s buzz about AI-driven threat detection tools making big strides. Lockheed Martin and Palantir have both announced new platforms leveraging machine learning to sniff out Beijing’s signature lateral movement inside networks. Early reviews from the field? Promising, but far from perfect. These systems still trip up on false positives and can be sidestepped by the more sophisticated operators coming out of China’s PLA Unit 61398.

Industry leaders—think Jen Easterly at CISA and Tom Kellermann in the private sector—are bang on one thing: despite all these defenses, the Typhoon campaigns have left what they call “pre-set bombs” in critical infrastructure. Translation? China’s ready for digital mayhem if the Taiwan situation heats up or trade wars get nastier.

Here’s my expert bottom line: the new tools and advisories are patching holes fast, but the game is whack-a-mole. Until legacy systems are fully scrubbed and zero trust is as common as coffee, the US remains at risk. China is holding back—for now—but their code is dug in deep. So keep your patches up, your alerts on, and never trust a satellite bearing gifts.

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