About: William Holstein

We’ve just witnessed how China influences the World Health Organization as it sought to investigate the origins of Covid-19. But that is just a piece of the broader pattern, as this report from Gateway House in Mumbai has concluded. China is, for example, trying to manipulate the U.N. agency in charge of international telecommunications standards […]…

This is an excellent article by Lauren Jackson in today’s New York Times interviewing Shoshana Zuboff, author of “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.” Zuboff says: “Apple is the wealthiest and most powerful corporation, certainly in modern history, perhaps in the history of capitalism. And Apple now exerts unilateral, essentially unaccountable control over critical communications infrastructures, […]…

Apple has made very questionable compromises with China’s Communist government to operate its data centers containing Chinese customer information there. The government essentially controls Apple’s data centers, according to this excellent article in today’s New York Times. Apple says its systems in China are “sequestered” from the rest of its global iCloud platform. Yet at […]…

Americans are not paying much attention to China’s achievements in landing a spacecraft on the dark side of the moon and on landing an explorer on Mars. What these events signify, however, is that China has made stunningly fast technological progress and has reached parity with the United States in many crucial respects. Compare and […]…

As New York Times media columnist Ben Smith makes clear in this story today, China is attempting to persuade the world that American values are not universal values and that American messages about freedom of speech and the right to elect one’s government are corrupt. Further, the projection of these values is merely intended to […]…