About: William Holstein

To anyone who wonders whether the United States can share an international communications platform with China, at a time when its internal systems are barricaded from the rest of the world’s, now comes this. According to Shira Ovide in the New York Times over the weekend, China is building an undersea cable to France, which […]…

If you add up the pieces, the evidence is beginning to mount that America’s tech giants have been compromised from within, as Mike McLauglin and I argued in a piece in November in the National Interest. Item No. 1 is this article in today’s New York Times. It seems that two major recent cyberattacks succeeded […]…

I’m so gratified that the OPC Foundation has been able to keep rolling during the pandemic. We feared we might not receive any applications for our awards or that the quality would be so poor that we might have to take a year off. But 125 college students applied and a panel of judges (thanks […]…

As President Biden’s team conducts a review of critical supply chains, one industry that should not be ignored is solar, which is clearly an industry of the future. This report from the Coalition for a Prosperous America is bang on the money. China used its financial clout to subsidize its essential control of the industry, […]…

For years, America’s major technology companies have operated in China but remained completely mum about reports that Chinese state-backed hacking organizations have engaged in cyber attacks against them. Amazon and Apple went to enormous lengths to deny BusinessWeek’s allegations in 2018 that the People’s Liberation Army placed tiny chips on motherboards that were placed in […]…