Author of "The New Art of War: China's Deep Strategy Inside the United States"

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AT&T Is Not Your Grandfather’s Ma Bell Anymore

Repost of author’s article as written in Chief Executive magazine | August 18, 2015 by William J Holstein AT&T’s purchase of DirecTV could transform the entire phone and television industries, and serves as a lesson in digital transformation for all CEOs to watch and learn from. Usually when the CEOs of large incumbent companies launch […]…

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BBC and NPR do a takeout on GM in China

And who ya gonna call? That’s right. Here it is: http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-08-26/chinese-drivers-love-buicks-and-thats-why-gm-concerned-about-their-economy Here is an exercept from the link above: William Holstein knows all about that. He wrote the book, “Why GM Matters: Inside the Race to Transform an American Icon,” and spent time in Shanghai researching the company’s operations there. He says it’s way too […]…

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A breakthrough in solar power

I’m a big believer in Natcore for several reasons: I think and hope that solar power can emerge as a major alternative to other forms of energy. I think and hope that the United States can play a leading role in this new field and prevent the Chinese or others from dominating it. I also […]…

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This Is Nuts! Letting the Chinese Take Over Micron?

After my last pre-vacation posting a couple of weeks ago, I am stunned to read that a Chinese state-owned company is proposing to buy Micron Technology, based in Boise, and a giant in the U.S. semiconductor industry. Micron is one of the world’s largest memory-chip makers. Those are not the very high end of the […]…

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Here come the Chinese in semiconductors–what will America do about it?

With each day that passes, it becomes clearer that the Chinese are making a push to dominate the world’s semiconductor industry. Semiconductors are the brains of computers and so many other devices that we rely on every day, so these chips are vital in determining who wins and who loses in the global economy. The […]…

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