About: William Holstein

Here is installment No. 1 of a Zoom session I did with my old Business Week colleague Dexter “Tiff” Roberts discussing his book, “The Myth of Chinese Capitalism.” His core argument is that China’s economic boom has relied on labor provided by 600 to 700 million people in rural areas, who have migrated to where […]…

The Chinese government took advantage of the coronavirus lockdown in Hong Kong to arrest Martin Lee, whom I first met 25 years ago in Hong Kong. No protests are possible because groups of more than four people are not allowed in public for health reasons. The Western media’s response to his arrest has been slower […]…

Please take a look at two online events coming up tomorrow, April 23, including a 10:30 a.m. Foreign Press Association discussion with Martin Lee, founder of the Hong Kong Democratic Party, and a 6:00 p.m. book night with OPC member Tiff Roberts about “The Myth of Chinese Capitalism.” Quarantining the Body Politic: PRC uses cover of virus to […]…

The Japanese Art of Bowing By Toshio Aritake and William J. Holstein Infectious disease czar Anthony Fauci has suggested that Americans and other Westerners might not want to risk shaking hands with each other once they begin to creep out of their coronavirus isolations and quarantines. What, then, will they do to greet each other? […]…

The Wall Street Journal reports that American companies operating in China think that “decoupling” of the U.S. and Chinese economies is increasingly likely. I paste it in below. I continue to think that a real decoupling, as proposed by Peter Navarro, is impossible. The United States and China have effectively merged their economies. American political […]…