About: William Holstein

A group of prominent Americans active in U.S. policy toward China wrote this oped in the Washington Post on July 3, a date guaranteeing that the vast majority of Americans will never see it. Among them was Stapleton Roy, who was the acting ambassador to China when I was based in Beijing in 1981-82 for […]…

While U.S. officials debate ways to license the sale of certain technologies to Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei, massive amounts of technology continue to flow out of U.S. technology companies through illegal means. The latest case in point is Tesla. The news broke in March after I had completed “The New Art of War: China’s Deep […]…

At last, someone at the New York Times is beginning to ask the right questions. In this article, Andrew Ross Sorkin, who usually writes about the glam world of finance, notes that the United States is “woefully–even disgracefully–behind” Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications giant that has been in the news. I have been arguing that the […]…

The first takeaway is that the uncertainty facing companies doing business in or with China continues. Trump may or may not follow through on tariffs on $300 billion worth of goods from China. That means business people will have to make decisions about where to source and where to manufacture with major question marks hanging […]…

In coming hours, President Trump and President Xi will sit down in Osaka and address the many issues that separate them. It has become clear, as per this article in the New York Times, that the problems extend far beyond trade deficits. The trade war has become a technology war. The Chinese have stolen enough […]…