About: William Holstein

If true, this is one of the most cynical power plays I have ever seen. U.S. multinationals operating in China appear to have inserted language in a bill aimed at helping America compete with China by including a provision that might do the exact opposite. Stripping out Section 301 would remove one of the U.S. […]…

When I heard that Microsoft was going to lay out $70 billion in cash (where the hell did they get all that PURE CASH?) to buy the gaming company, Activision Blizzard, I thought I would hear screams of outrage that one of America’s top five techno-gorillas was expanding into yet another horizontal space. This is […]…

We have long known that the Chinese government has targeted American carbon composite technology. Carbon composites are extremely useful in aircraft frames because they are lightweight. And they are critically important in jet engines because of their ability to withstand high temperatures. It was General Electric’s carbon composite technology that Yanjun Xu, an official of […]…

Here’s the latest broadside from Reuters: Amazon has curried favor in China by promoting books extolling the leadership of President Xi Jinping and his version of “socialism with Chinese characteristics.” This comes at the same time that the New York Times is describing how China’s government is spending massive amounts of money on Facebook and […]…

The Chinese government is using sophisticated automated bot systems to “like” and promote social media posts that confuse Western audiences about the treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang Province and about the origins of COVID, according to a breakthrough article in the New York Times online today. Our social media platforms are making billions by helping […]…