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Jan 7, 2025 | 
watchingamerica.com | Matthew McKay
There are various analyses and predictions about whether the Chinese Communist Party will launch a war in the Taiwan Strait. Some say it’ll happen in 2025, others say 2027, and still others say 2035. In this writer’s view, it is unlikely to see war break out with Taiwan in 2025, mainly because the critical juncture for war has not yet arrived.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
nature.com | Brian Lee |Ahmed Abdul Quadeer |Matthew McKay
AbstractNew and more transmissible variants of SARS-CoV-2 have arisen multiple times over the course of the pandemic. Rapidly identifying mutations that affect transmission could improve our understanding of viral biology and highlight new variants that warrant further study. Here we develop a generic, analytical epidemiological model to infer the transmission effects of mutations from genomic surveillance data.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
watchingamerica.com | Matthew McKay
This Nov. 22, the city of Zhongshan in Guangdong province, China, held two events along the theme of “Opportunities and Challenges for Cross-Strait Relations under the New Situation:” The 40th anniversary of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences’ Institute of Taiwan Studies and the 10th Cross-Strait Think Tank Academic Forum.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
watchingamerica.com | Matthew McKay
The Policy Logic of Restricting Artificial Intelligence Investment in ChinaUnder the general trend of expanding national security regulations mentioned in the previous piece, U.S. lawmakers are increasingly concerned about the potential impact investing in China could have on their economy and national security, and proposals to establish a foreign investment review mechanism are receiving growing bipartisan support.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
watchingamerica.com | Matthew McKay
Can the U.S.’ Allies Follow Its Lead? Prior to issuing the Outbound Order, the Biden administration had been pushing its allies to adopt similar regulations to restrict investment in China’s technology industry. It is fair to say that any unilateral action on the part of the U.S. would appear weak without the help of its allies, so it is doing its best to ensure that other countries do not step in to fill any investment gaps left by American companies.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
watchingamerica.com | Matthew McKay
On Oct. 28, 2024, the U.S. Treasury Department issued a “Final Rule” restricting U.S. investment in “countries of concern” in areas that may threaten national security, such as artificial intelligence, semiconductors and microelectronics, and quantum computing. This completes the implementation of the China-focused foreign investment plan proposed by outgoing President Joe Biden in Executive Order No. 14105 (hereinafter referred to as the “Outbound Order”) on Aug. 9, 2023.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
watchingamerica.com | Matthew McKay
According to Reuters, Polestar stated on Monday that the Biden administration’s proposed ban on the use of Chinese automotive hardware and software would “effectively prohibit” its sales of cars in the United States.
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | John Mach |Matthew McKay |Biomarker Laboratory |Kevin Winardi
α-SMA alpha smooth muscle actin CI credible interval CYP cytochrome P450 DMET drug-metabolizing enzyme and transporter FC fold change FDR false discovery rate GO gene ontology GS gene significance GSEA gene set enrichment analysis H&E hematoxylin and eosin HCA hierarchical clustering analysis KEGG Kyoto encyclopedia of genes and genomes LC-MS/MS liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry MGI GXD Mouse Genome Informatics Gene eXpression Database MHC Major histocompatibility complex MM...
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
watchingamerica.com | Matthew McKay
The United States Federal Reserve recently announced a rate cut, and many have taken this to mean the U.S. has lost the “financial war,” with some even proclaiming that “the U.S. has lost, and China has won.” But does this spell the end to the U.S.-China game? The reality is not quite so simple. For one thing, we should not underestimate American strength.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
watchingamerica.com | Matthew McKay
The United States has traditionally been a country open to investment. “Traditionally” because, where Chinese investors are concerned, the U.S. is in the process of slamming its doors shut at speeds visible to the naked eye. Data from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis show that the flow of Chinese direct investments to the U.S. dwindled into insignificance in 2023, with the period from 2020 to 2022 even seeing a net divestment.
