MONTHLY NEWSLETTER I October 2019 Panelists to Discuss Europe’s Past and Present INSIDE 30 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall China’s Tech Theft William J. Holstein 2 EVENT PREVIEW: OCT. 30 OPC Call for Entries 2 by patricia kranz Christopher Dickey n nov. 9, 1989, the world watched in amaze- & Rukmini Callimachi ment as East Germans streamed through and Blast Trump on Syria 3 Oover the Berlin Wall to cross into West Berlin, People Column 5-7 with Berliners from both sides of the city celebrating atop the Wall. The collapse of this iconic symbol of the Fordham’s Upcoming East-West divide was not an isolated incident but the Journalism Events 7 culmination of a series of political upheavals through- Press Freedom out the region that year. Taken together, they marked the Update 8-9 beginning of the end of the Soviet empire and the Cold TURNLEY DAVID War. Journalists who covered those historic events and This photo by David Turnley is from a portfolio of im- New Books 10 their aftermath will share their experiences with OPC ages that won him the Pulitzer Prize for work in 1989 that included the fall of the Berlin Wall. Q&A: members on Oct. 30 and offer insights into the future of Benedetta Europe and global security. Argentieri 11 and immigration issues in the United States. Bogert was The program is open to all. The OPC invites any previously deputy executive director at Human Rights journalists who covered Europe and the Soviet Union to Watch, running its award-winning global media opera- come and reconnect with former colleagues and friends. tions. Before joining Human Rights Watch in 1998, The event gets underway at Club Quarters at 6:00 p.m., Bogert spent twelve years as a foreign correspondent and a reception with light hors d’oeuvres and cash bar for Newsweek in China, Southeast Asia, and the Soviet will follow from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Visit opco- Union. famerica.org to RSVP. ● John Daniszewski became vice president for stan- Panelists include: dards and editor-at-large for The Associated Press in ● Carroll Bogert, president of The Marshall Project, July 2016 after more than a decade leading its interna- a nonprofit media organization covering criminal justice Continued on Page 4 OPC Member Reports from Front Lines in Hong Kong by chad bouchard over the last five months, “police OPC’s press ID helped her during However, international journalists pc member Suzanne tactics have grown more sudden, a scuffle with Hong Kong police like herself still face intimidation, Sataline has witnessed more violent, and more arbitrary to identify her as an American she said. Oturmoil in Hong Kong against civilian demonstrators and journalist, and that “ultimately, the Sataline recounted escalating from close range while covering the press.” credentials got me released.” police tactics since June when protests, and experienced first Sataline is a freelance writer But as she wrote in The Atlan- protests began, when police at first hand how police are targeting and and editor based in Hong Kong tic, Hong Kong colleagues work- would simply move journalists intimidating journalists. and New York, and has been ing for local press are not faring as away from protesters, using lights She wrote an extensive piece an OPC member since October well as they bear most of the brunt or strobes to disrupt video devices. for The Atlantic recounting how 2016. She said in an email that the of police pressure and violence. Continued on Page 4 1 1 William J. Holstein Urges US to Boost Defenses Christopher Dickey Against China’s Campaign of Tech Theft Calls Trump ‘Delusional’ by chad bouchard on Syria Withdrawal pc past President William J. Holstein wrote an op- by chad bouchard withdrawal and convinced the Kurds not to plan for an American ed piece for The Wall Street Journal warning that the exit. With fair warning, Russia and Syria might have been able to pc second Vice President Christopher Dickey has blasted recent arrest of a California tour guide on espionage head off the campaign of unfettered violence Turkey has waged in O President Donald Trump’s decision to green-light a mas- charges is only a symptom of Beijing’s wider tech espio- the vacuum. sive Turkish incursion, which he wrote would “open the nage campaign. His piece follows news that the U.S. Justice O Dickey and Ackerman wrote another piece on Oct. 14 examin- way to ethnic cleansing,” calling it a betrayal of the Kurds who led Department arrested Peng Xuehua for allegedly funneling ing how the U.S. withdrawal diverted surveillance resources away the fight against ISIS. classified American secrets to China’s Ministry of State from ISIS and onto its own troops near the Iraqi and Jordanian “His bluffing and bullying could not compensate for his igno- Security. He noted that FBI Director Christopher Wray said in border. Lack of monitoring of ISIS movements, and a lack of vi- July that most of the agency’s 1,000 active investigations into rance addressing an extremely delicate situation, which is why he reversed course so many times, and continues to do so,” Dickey intellectual property theft involved China. Continued on Page 5 “Beijing’s tech theft is a danger to every American and said in an emailed newsletter with a roundup of coverage of the every opponent of the Chinese Communist Party,” Holstein topic. JUSTIN SULLIVAN/GETTY IMAGES SULLIVAN/GETTY JUSTIN wrote. “The line between commercial and military technology Dickey is foreign editor for The Daily Beast and a contributor Rukmini Callimachi is often blurry – artificial intelligence, for instance, has many U.S. attorney David L. Anderson displays an SD memory to NBC and MSNBC, based in Paris. card during a news conference on Sept. 30, in San Fran- commercial and military uses. The party has also directly On Oct. 18, he discussed Turkey’s campaign against the Kurds Watches Turkish Invasion cisco, California. The U.S. attorney’s office of the Northern gone after military secrets. The Navy secretary said in March during a remote interview from Paris with Brian Williams on the District of California announced a criminal complaint that his branch and its commercial partners are under ‘cyber MSNBC show The 11th Hour, telling the host that the move would against Xuehua Peng for allegedly delivering classified in Syria with Dismay siege’ by China.” embolden escaped ISIS terrorists to target Europe, which Trump national security information to China. Holstein outlines several tech theft cases that came to light dismissed as a problem for Europeans and not the U.S. Dickey said by chad bouchard Europeans responded to the decision with consternation, regarding in 2019, including fraud charges against Bo Mao, a profes- pc member and former governor Rukmini Callimachi has Companies will have to devote more money and staff to IT, it as “yet another example of what has been seen for a long time as sor in Texas, for allegations that he stole solid-state-drive closely followed escalating conflict in northern Syria after even if this puts pressure on profits.” the insanity of the American president.” technology from CNEX Labs; the conviction of Yi-Chi Shih, President Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops. She an adjunct professor from the University of California, on Holstein said security experts have warned that some Dickey reported that France was trying to negotiate with Iraq to O is a New York Times foreign correspondent covering Al Qaeda and companies are reluctant to ask for help from Washington, take French ISIS prisoners out of Syria and put them in Iraq. He re- charges that he hacked systems of a company that makes ISIS, currently at home on maternity leave. Callimachi warned of possibly because they fear public blowback as a result of acted to Trump’s statement to press that the Kurds were “incredibly circuits that use microwave frequencies; a lawsuit from a growing humanitarian crisis, and expressed dismay that Turkey’s transparency. He said the U.S. has so far been sluggish in its happy with this solution” that it “saved their lives,” and calling it a Tesla Inc. accusing former engineer Guangzhi Cao of copy- invasion of Syria could revive ISIS and reverse hard-fought gains response to China’s espionage campaign, which is “subtle and “tough love approach.” ing 300,000 company files before taking a job at a Chinese against the group. long-term.” He said companies and U.S. security agencies “He’s delusional,” Dickey said, adding that in 2014 when ISIS self-driving car startup, Xiaopeng Motors; and news that On Oct. 6, the White House must work in concert to forge a rigorous strategy on how to was rolling into Iraq, Syria and the FBI and Justice Department busted a four-year hacking announced that U.S. forces would respond. up to the Turkish border “the only operation from the group APT10 out of Tianjin that worked withdraw from the border to make Holstein is author of the recently published book The fighters who stood in its way, with China’s Ministry of State Security, a campaign that used way for a “long-planned” invasion New Art of War: China’s Deep Strategy Inside the United who held their ground against malware to penetrate U.S cloud computing systems and gain from Turkey. Trump warned that he States. He spoke about the book during an OPC discussion all odds, were exactly the same access to IBM and the U.S. Navy. would “totally destroy and obliter- in June with Barbara Demick, who served as Beijing bureau Kurds that Trump just betrayed.” Holstein called for the U.S.