About: William Holstein

One of the tragedies that is unfolding with scarcely a murmur from Washington is that China’s Huawei has developed 5G wireless communication capabilities that exceed anything the United States has to offer. Former officers from the People’s Liberation Army built Huawei in close cooperation with the Chinese government, which may have provided $75 billion in […]…

President Trump wanted a sweeping deal with the Chinese government that would attack the heart of its state-led technology-based bid to assert global supremacy. He said publicly that he wanted President Xi Jinping to come to a flashy summit where the two men would sign a deal that gave the Americans what they wanted. Trade […]…

A truly excellent piece in today’s Wall Street Journal. The Chinese party-state has given or lent some $75 billion to Huawei. Can there be any question but that if the government were to ask Huawei for access to a specific telecommunications network, that Huawei would be obliged to grant it? The Chinese party-state early on […]…

Nikkei is like an official part of the Japanese intellectual and governing establishment. The fact that they are publishing this, suggests that very serious people in Japan are beginning to recognize all the things I wrote about in The New Art of War. The Chinese are using the same set of tools all around the […]…

A careful reading of everything that’s been written about President Trump’s so-called Phase One trade deal with the Chinese government leads me to conclude that the Chinese have been vindicated by adopting an intransigent Long March kind of approach. The Americans simply lacked the intestinal fortitude for a prolonged standoff. In the end, domestic considerations […]…