About: William Holstein

There are many troubling trends in China these days–the government has recentralized power and is creating a cult of personality around President Xi Jinping, who is expected at an upcoming meeting of the Communist Party to seek to extend his term in office beyond the traditional 10 years. Xi has crushed dissent and arrested or […]…

I was delighted to be able to moderate this excellent panel discussion on “America’s Longest War,” meaning the one in Afghanistan. It was an Overseas Press Club event featuring Kathy Gannon, David Rohde and Jere Van Dyk, three journalists with deep experience in Afghanistan. Watch one or more of the video clips…

This is really a critical question and this piece in the New York Times goes right to the heart of it. I’ve seen this through the prism of my work at the Overseas Press Club where I try to sell tables to the annual dinner. In my contacts with Google and Facebook, they argue that […]…

I am pleased to be moderating a panel discussion on America’s longest war, the one we’ve been fighting in Afghanistan since 2001. I’ll have three top correspondents–Kathy Gannon of the Associated Press; David Rohde, previously with the New York Times and now with the New Yorker magazine; and Jere van Dyk, who has covered the […]…

If Michael Dunne is right and the Chinese insist that all foreign automakers transfer their electric car technology to their Chinese partners, it could mark the beginning of the end for the world’s automakers, which have been making huge profits in China. When I visited Shanghai in 2008 to write about General Motors’ joint venture […]…