About: William Holstein

The Brookings Institution is part of the traditional foreign policy establishment in the United States. And it reveals its utter blindness to the realities of the U.S.-China relationship in this article. I quote in part: “Beijing does not seek to overthrow democratic regimes or force its political model on others (with the critical exception of […]…

I did this one on China Unscripted without co-author Michael McLaughlin but we covered some major issues in a very lively and understandable conversation. Be sure to start at the beginning…

John Avlon of CNN was the moderator. The video can be seen here. Be sure to start from the beginning…

Watching and listening to President Biden at his press conference in Vietnam, I was struck by how the president and the press who cover him have entirely the wrong mental construct about China. At a time when China is exploiting the weaknesses of America’s computers, sending spy balloons over sensitive U.S. military installations, and planting […]…

This was a great discussion! You can listen to all of it here. Mike and I explain how China and Russia are exploiting the Internet and social media as well as thousands of our computing systems…