After years of building tensions, President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to rachet up tariffs against China by up to 60 percent. American consumers and American businesses will feel the pain, and the government of Xi Jinping will almost certainly retaliate against American interests. Xi is a Marxist nationalist, meaning he believes that Western capitalistic democracies must be overcome. To that end, China’s support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Iran’s campaign to encircle Israel shows no sign of abating. China’s cyberwar against America’s Information Technology systems also has reached new heights. It is a kind of confrontation the United States has never before experienced. What is the way forward?
Who: William J. Holstein, Author, Expert on US-China relations
When: Thursday January 30, 2025 – 5:30pm reception | 6:00pm Presentation | 7:00pm Post-Presentation Dinner
Where: TBD
About the Speaker:
William J. Holstein was dispatched to Hong Kong by United Press International in 1979 and witnessed the first stirrings of China’s economic modernization in southern China. He was promoted to Beijing bureau chief and studied the Chinese language intensively. He subsequently became World Editor of Business Week magazine and either wrote for or was on staff at U.S. News & World Report, Fortune, The New York Times, and Chief Executive magazine, remaining engaged in the issues surrounding the emergence of East Asia. He is the author or co-author of 10 books, most recently co-authoring “Battlefield Cyber: How China And Russia Are Undermining Our Democracy and National Security.” (Prometheus, August 2023.) Another title of interest: “The New Art of War: China’s Deep Strategy Inside the United States.” (BrickTower, 2019).