About: William Holstein

This is how China treats its friends and neighbors…

As a student of information and propaganda, I’m hearing a rising chorus of voices arguing that American worries about China’s technology-based drive for global dominance are “overblown.” This comes as the special House committee starts its deliberations. The timing is conspicuous. First is Jonah Goldberg, a conservative syndicated columnist writing in the Los Angeles Times […]…

The Center for Security and Emerging Technology has done it again–they have come up with break-through research on a highly sensitive U.S.-Chinese technology issue. In this case (report can be seen here). It turns out that U.S. venture capitalists are investing heavily in Chinese AI start-ups. Some 37 percent of all AI investments in China […]…

Quartz is reporting that Apple’s main factory contractor, FoxConn, is about to invest $300 million in Vietnam in an effort to reduce Apple’s dependency on China as a manufacturing platform. Apple has waited too long. The Chinese almost certainly will find ways to retaliate against Apple and they have dozens of ways to do it–supply […]…

There’s much gnashing of teeth about why so little is known about the three objects that have been shot down over the United States and Canada since a Chinese spy balloon was destroyed in the Atlantic Ocean. I suspect the answer is that the Chinese figured out a way to exploit “near space,” an area […]…