About: William Holstein

A lawsuit filed by a former ByteDance employee (ByteDance owns TikTok) alleges that a special unit of the Chinese Communist Party inside the company monitors its apps and has access to all its data. “The (party) Committee maintained supreme access to all the company data, even data stored in the United States,” the employee’s complaint […]…

I’m delighted to report that Kirkus Review, a publishing industry powerhouse, has given a starred review to Battlefield Cyber: How China and Russia Are Undermining Our Democracy and National Security. One of the most coveted designations in the book industry, Kirkus says its star “marks books of exceptional merit.” The key takeaway line is this: “A disturbing, […]…

I realize this is explosive territory because Asian-Americans, particularly Chinese-Americans, fear getting caught up in the mounting U.S.-Chinese confrontation. Bad things, like the incarceration of Japanese-Americans during World War II and the anti-Chinese laws of the late 19th Century, have unquestionably happened. But Jessica Chen Weiss, writing an essay in today’s New York Times, goes […]…

This article, adapted from our new book Battlefield Cyber (pre-order here), has just appeared in Force Distance Times, a unique magazine and website oriented to the people who make things happen in American industry and technology. The U.S. software meltdown helps explain why China and Russia have been able to deeply penetrate thousands of American […]…

It appears he is favoring the dictatorships, according to two reports from the Associated Press. First, Dake Kang at the AP in Beijing reports this on Twitter: “Investigative ex-CCTV journalist Wang Zhi’an’s twitter account has been locked, for unclear reasons. Astonishing squelching of a independent, influential voice in the Chinese language media ecosystem. Wang Zhi’an […]…