About: William Holstein

I am pleased that Force Distance Times, a new website dedicated to reviving American manufacturing, has chosen to publish this piece, as pasted in below. The online link is here. Force Distance Times is the creation of Emily de la Bruyere, a fast-rising China analyst who served as editor of an outstanding report from the […]…

This outstanding report from the Center for Security and Emerging Technologies at Georgetown University documents, in incredible detail, how China’s People’s Liberation Army is obtaining American-designed semiconductors to use in its weapons programs, specifically in its efforts to harness Artificial Intelligence. It’s widely assumed that AI will be critical in any confrontation between the United […]…

This excellent piece of reporting by Buzzfeed News has not received any attention in the mainstream media, but it is incredibly important. It completely shatters the myth that the parent company of TikTok, namely ByteDance, does not have access to the incredible volume of data that the service generates in the United States. That means […]…

The evidence is mounting that the Chinese government has thoroughly penetrated American telecommunications and computing systems. The National Security Agency has compiled this map of 700 targets, as obtained by NBC News. What are the Chinese doing with all the data they are stealing and all the system penetrations they have achieved. As Mike McLaughlin and […]…

The two houses of Congress are locked in a struggle over a large bill that would pump $52 billion into the American semiconductor industry, giving it a lift at a time when China is striving mightily to catch up. The bill would presumably postpone the day when China could achieve anything approaching parity. It currently […]…