About: William Holstein

President Trump is completely out of his depth when it comes to negotiating with the Chinese, who are masters of the Long Game. It would take sustained, institutionalized focus to prevail in any negotiation with them and that is precisely what Trump is incapable of. The august New York Times agrees…

The details are still not clear, but it appears to me that the Chinese outlasted and outmaneuvered President Trump, who once declared that trade wars are easy to win. The agreement, as much as we know of it, postpones the imposition of new tariffs on the last tranche of Chinese goods in exchange for tens […]…

While we either ignore or bully Central America, China is moving in, big time. This from Reuters: WORLD NEWS DECEMBER 3, 2019 / 12:11 PM / UPDATED A DAY AGO China signs on for ‘gigantic’ investment in El Salvador infrastructure Nelson Renteria 2 MIN READ El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele talks to China’s Premier Li […]…

We learned a full year ago from the Department of Justice that state-affiliated Chinese hacking group, APT10, had penetrated the cloud computing systems of major U.S. technology companies. The Wall Street Journal identified the companies as IBM and HPE, an offshoot of Hewlett-Packard. IBM was quoted as saying it found no evidence of the hacking. […]…

Tom Friedman had pretty strong insights into the U.S.-China relationship in his most recent column, written from Singapore. “China is not our economic competitor, economic partner, source of talent and capital, geopolitical rival, collaborator and serial rule-breaker. It is not our enemy or our friend. “The only effective way to manage a relationship this complex […]…