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…
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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 […]…
Bravo! A Republican senator from Wisconsin Nails “The New Cold War” Argument
Yes, America Is in a Cold War With China Some lessons from the Soviet era apply: Seek bipartisan consensus and allies, and avoid armed conflict. By Mike Gallagher June 7, 2020 12:51 pm EST A new cold war is heating up between the U.S. and China, but America’s public intellectuals are mA ore interested in fighting […]…
Trump’s Disastrous German Moves
I realize that all of our attention is focused on Covid, China and domestic racial relations at the moment, but every once in a while, we have to stop to examine something that our president is doing on the world stage that will have lasting negative impact. By unilaterally ordering the withdrawal of 9,500 American […]…
