I’ve been writing about “re-shoring” and “back shoring” for years. This outfit has been an absolute leader in this effort, thanks to its founder Harry Moser. Here’s their latest newsletter. It seems Washington might, just might, be getting serious about shifting more production home. June 2020 View Online | Unsubscribe | Subscribe June 2020 E-News: Companies and Politicians Respond […]…
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Thermo Fisher Is Helping China Control Its People
This excellent article in today’s New York Times by Sui-Lee Wee spotlights one of the issues I wrote about recently for the Harvard Business Review, seen here. Thermo Fisher, based in Massachusetts, is selling DNA testing kits that the Chinese government is using to put all its men in a DNA surveillance network. At what […]…
How China Is Taking Over Hong Kong
My former colleague Sheri Prasso explains it in this excellent piece for Bloomberg, which is not hidden behind a pay wall. It’s called the United Front tactic…
Our piece in the Harvard Business Review: The Five Questions Boards Should Be Asking About Their Companies’ China Exposures
I wrote this with Roger Kenny, a long-time friend and associate who specializes in assessing how boards work. 5 Questions About China That Boards Should Be Asking Right Now by William J. Holstein and Roger M. Kenny U.S.-China relations have not been so tense since before President Jimmy Carter and Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping agreed to […]…
The Storm Tearing Journalism Apart
I can’t believe that I find a lead editorial in the Wall Street Journal to be persuasive. I usually read the editorial and op-ed pages of the Journal to discover what the right-wing crackpots are talking about–what logic or ill-logic they are using to defend Trump-in-chief. But this editorial, below, makes a lot of sense […]…
