About: William Holstein

“Wag the Dog” was a 1997 film starring Robert DiNiro and Dustin Hoffman. A U.S. president is caught in a sex scandal only two weeks after taking office. The White House turns to DiNiro and Hoffman to create a foreign threat, in this case Albanians who are seeking to use nuclear weapons against the United […]…

Here is a video of me talking with China File about Chinese government intrusions into American information systems, both by hacking and by planting spies. I heartily recommend it…

At long last, perhaps five years too late, the U.S. Navy is getting serious about responding to the massive hacking effect that the Chinese government has launched against it. In effect, the Chinese have poured into the Navy’s business through channels and from directions that the Navy hasn’t been aware of or hasn’t been able […]…

It’s mildly encouraging that the United States seems to have awoken to two aspects of China’s deep strategy inside the United States—the potential for wireless networks made by Huawei to serve as surveillance channels and the danger represented by allowing a Chinese state-owned railroad company to make subway cars—equipped with malware-loaded security cameras—for the Washington, […]…

In my book, “The New Art of War: China’s Deep Strategy Inside the United States,” seen here, I spend a chapter talking about how China-related interests are trying to establish new opinion platforms in the United States where they can promote views that are broadly sympathetic to those of Beijing. Here’s a perfect new example. […]…