About: William Holstein

This issue has lain dormant but with each passing day, as evidence mounts of the extensive nature of China’s use of technology to repress, the chances are increasing that American companies are going to have to face up to the fact that their technology is supporting suppression. Shareholders, the media, activist groups and others could […]…

U.S. Struggles to Stem Chinese Efforts to Recruit Scientists Officials see indictment against University of Kansas professor, who says he is falsely accused, as a possible prosecution blueprint The Department of Justice has charged a professor at the University of Kansas with defrauding the government by failing to disclose he had allegedly taken a position […]…

If you’re a subscriber to the Wall Street Journal, there are currently 59 comments posted on my op ed, which appeared Oct. 15. See here. They make for interesting reading. Key points: we are deluding ourselves that cloud computing is safe. It is not. Chinese students and Chinese nationals working in U.S. technology companies are […]…

We have met the enemy–and they is us, as the old Pogo comic strip once said. There are several elements of the 5G challenge, including making the equipment and the software that runs it. But another piece is allocating spectrum. And on that count, the U.S. government looks like the Keystone Kops. See this article […]…

The New York Times published my letter to the editor today, which I wrote in response to Gina Kolata’s article, seen here. To the Editor: Re “In F.B.I.’s Sights: Stolen Research Flowing to China” (front page, Nov. 4): Chinese scientists are not just stealing secrets from the National Institutes of Health and the biomedical community. […]…