About: William Holstein

This action of bringing together a bipartisan consensus to examine America’s supply chains of semiconductors, rare earths and other critical components does not seem to explicitly mention China. But it’s clear that this is an effort to reduce U.S. vulnerabilities to an increasingly assertive Chinese Communist Party and to make sure that a crucial industry–semiconductors–does […]…

This article is hidden behind a pay wall but it is so important that I will provide a summary. Entitled “The Long Hack: How China Exploited a U.S. Tech Supplier,” the same two journalists who wrote “The Big Hack” in 2018, Jordan Robertson and Michael Riley, describe how what they earlier discovered was just a […]…

I missed this report from Brookings last year. China pal Jocelyn Ford alerted me to it. You can see it here. But this map tells the story:…

Apparently in reaction to the article that Mike McLaughlin and I wrote for the National Interest, seen here, The Hill is reporting that the Department of Homeland Security has issued a warning about precisely what we wrote about–the Chinese government is requiring foreign companies that operate in China to make their systems completely open to […]…

The apparent attack by Russia’s S.V.R. intelligence service on America’s computer systems establishes beyond a shadow of a doubt that the United States faces a computerized crisis of major proportions. The private sector and many government agencies have declined to spend the money and hire the personnel to make their systems secure. The private sector […]…