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I believe the most important thing Americans must do is to secure their economic well-being in an increasingly challenging, complex world. What I have written about all these years is the process of creating wealth, not for any one individual, but for the United States as a whole. Ever since I was a young correspondent witnessing the emergence of China after the country opened in 1979, I’ve believed we have to get more serious about creating wealth. I retain faith in the resiliency of the U.S. economy and the enterprise of American people. If Americans have the right strategies, we can once again create widespread wealth. Come with me on this journey.
China’s Crackdown: How Far? How Deep?
May 9, 2015
I would invite all my readers to this event: China’s Crackdown: How Far? How Deep? Dear William, Please join us on Monday, May 18, at 6:30 p.m. for a panel discussion at Club Quarters co-hosted by the Overseas Press Club, Freedom House, and the Winston Lord Roundtable on American Foreign Policy and the Rule of […]
Community College Training: An Urgent National Mission
April 27, 2015
I wrote in The Next American Economy about how Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland trains and retrains workers for jobs that require higher levels of skills. That was in 2011. And I wrote again about it in a cover story for Chief Executive in 2014. We have a terrible problem because millions of Americans just […]
Japan Surpasses China As Largest U.S. Creditor
April 16, 2015
I keep beating these drums because I think Americans have to finally get serious about understanding and responding to the emergence of not just one new East Asian economic powerhouse but at least two–both Japan and China. The U.S. conventional wisdom these days is that Japan is finished. I can’t believe how many times I […]
The Weak Link In Hank Paulson’s View of China
April 14, 2015
My readers know I follow the U.S. debate about China with great attention, so I have been watching Hank Paulson emerge with his new book, “Dealing With China: An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower.” I attended an event last evening at the Asia Society at which Paulson, the former CEO of Goldman Sachs and […]
3D Manufacturing Is No Longer in The Future–It’s Here, on the Manufacturing Floor
March 11, 2015
Are you ready for the additive manufacturing revolution? My latest in Chief Executive magazine. By William J. Holstein Busy CEOs may be forgiven for trying to tune out the noise and hype that technology suppliers try to generate. Remember the Y2K craze? But every once in a while, a technology reaches what Andy Grove, the first […]
Which Way Is China Headed?
March 9, 2015
Here is a video interview I did with the ChinaFile arm of the Asia Society, on the basis of the China Hands reunion, which serves as the basis for my latest book, “Has The American Media Misjudged China?”.
