About: William Holstein

The interviewer, Susan Page, asked a brilliant question last night–how would you define the U.S. relationship with China? Neither candidate could provide a coherent answer, as the transcript below shows. The central challenge we face, as I argued in The New Art of War and other places, is to recognize the nature of the conflict […]…

Marco Rubio is right–the U.S. government should block the sale of GNC, the struggling health supplement chain, because China will obtain millions of health records of Americans. Different Chinese entities already have stolen massive amounts of information about American’s credit ratings, their travel patterns and their health care information. And we know that some Chinese […]…

I’m surprised this story in Britain’s Guardian hasn’t made headlines in the United States, at least not yet. This is the first credible story suggesting that companies linked to China’s Ministry of State Security are scraping websites for personal details about prominent Americans and other nationalities and compiling dossiers on them. Some 52,000 Americans are said […]…

China’s propaganda masters are dismissing the report in the New York Times that Chinese diplomats penetrated the New York Police Department to spy on Tibetan communites in the New York area. But it is perfectly consistent with other behaviors of Chinese diplomats in the United States. In fact, I spent an entire chapter in The […]…

Judging by what the morning newspapers are reporting, the Trump Administration has completely failed to address the core issue involving TikTok: the Chinese parent company Byte Dance, and by implication the Chinese government, will retain control of the AI-powered algorithmns that thrill teenagers as well as the data the app collects about those users. The […]…