About: William Holstein

This article in Japan’s Nikkei completely supports the piece that Mike McLaughlin and I published a week ago in the National Interest. The Chinese government is using tax software to penetrate the computing systems of foreign companies operating in China, giving them the ability to penetrate the corporate global networks…

The answer appears to be “yes.” See my article co-authored with Michael McLaughlin, senior counterintelligence adviser to the Pentagon’s CyberCommand, here…

This piece in the New York Times explains how Intel and Nvidia sell semiconductors to a middleman in China who then sells them to authorities running the largest surveillance operation in the world against the Uighur minority population. Some even call it genocide. The fact that President Xi Jinping has declared a “military-civil fusion” means […]…

I’m excited to announce I’ll be co-moderating a video session with Chris Leung, head of the Hong Kong Journalists Association, with Ian Williams of the Foreign Press Association. It’s at 10 a.m. this coming Monday, Nov, 23. Go here to register…

From my one-time protege at Business Week, a most authoritative view of what is happening inside Hong Kong. The Chinese strategy is clearly to use business and economic incentives to overwhelm any political opposition or resistance…