About: William Holstein

APT10 is at it again. According to a story in today’s Wall Street Journal (the New York Times missed the story), the Tianjin-based hacking group affiliated with China’s Ministry of State Security infiltrated the cellular networks of at least 10 global telecom carriers, stealing users’ whereabouts, text-messaging records and call logs. The article, by Timothy […]…

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer today revealed the fundamental misjudgment at the heart of the Trump Administration’s strategy for dealing with China. In an exchange with Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, Lighthizer correctly noted that China is stealing technology from the United States and that will deprive our children and their grandchildren of the jobs […]…

Here I discuss with Barbara Demick of the Los Angeles Times how the People’s Liberation Army planted secret chips inside motherboards being made in China for assembly into American computers…

In this third installment from my OPC book night, Barbara Demick asks me about how the porous nature of American society makes it possible for the Chinese government to achieve its objectives, specifically with Hollywood studios and universities. See it here…

In this segment of my book night with Barbara Demick of The Los Angeles Times, we talk about how China legally acquires financially ailing U.S. technology firms and gets access to as much as 50 percent of the deal flow in Silicon Valley, giving the Chinese access to emerging technologies before the Pentagon does…