About: William Holstein

It seems we are headed down the slippery slope of a technology dis-engagement between the United States and China. If you add up all the threads, it seems both governments are organizing themselves to prevent each other’s companies and enterprises from sharing too much technology or too much investment. The logic seems so powerful that […]…

My key question is, if this is the pattern they have established at home, are they using the same techniques and methodologies internationally? The Communist Party’s doctrine seems to have evolved to the point that not only is the party completely dominant inside China, but it also has the right to assert its supremacy globally. […]…

October 2020 E-News: Commerce Department Requests More Reshoring from China, Reshoring Initiative Responds Inbox Reshoring Initiative <reshore@mail.gardnerweb.com> Unsubscribe 8:15 AM (3 hours ago) to me October 2020 View Online | Unsubscribe | Subscribe October 2020 E-News: Commerce Department Requests More Reshoring from China, Reshoring Initiative Responds Investment Advisory Council (IAC) of the U.S. Department of Commerce The IAC met on September 10, 2020, […]…

Few subjects are as important as the race to integrate Artificial Intelligence into human decision-making. It has clear geopolitical and military significance because the country that can do it first will obtain enormous advantages over other countries, both in monitoring and analyzing their IT systems and also in prevailing militarily without necessarily firing a shot. […]…

It took my old pal, Thomas Goltz, 40 years to write this book entitled The Bridge but at last it’s out, seen here. I have written an introduction. I’m certainly no area specialist, having been to Istanbul only once, but Turkey is clearly on the move–in Libya, in eastern Mediterranean waters claimed by Greece, in […]…