About: William Holstein

The Koch Brothers, who have funded many right-wing political groups, has taken their ideology a step too far by deciding to remain in Russia. See story here. There comes a time when companies must rally around a president and a government making a principled stand with its allies…

Wired magazine is reporting here that China’s Advanced Persistent Threat group 41 (APT41) has hacked American state governments. No one has a clue what information they are stealing, but it could be that they are adding to their collection of data about individuals. If they could get access to different Department of Motor Vehicles, for example, […]…

If this report from the Center for Security and Emerging Technology, based on a report from the Verge, is true, the Chinese may have taken advantage of the West’s distraction with Ukraine to stage an attack on Nvidia, one of the most sophisticated chip designers in the United States. The company, run by Taiwanese based […]…

I just happened to stumble over a study that should be on every serious person’s reading list. It is entitled, “China’s Digital Ambitions: A Global Strategy to Supplant the Liberal Order.” It is from the National Bureau of Asian Research. It is available free to download here. We have known that Huawei’s 5G wireless communications […]…

For generations, American chief executive officers and other top managers have believed that it was their job to create global platforms that would maximize their short-term profits and hence their share price. It did not matter where the companies sold their products or services, where they obtained financing, where they developed or sold technology, or […]…