In 2000, the Food and Drug Administration approved RU-486, a do-it-yourself abortion drug for use in the first seven weeks of pregnancy. As no U.S. firm wished to be associated with RU-486, a China-based company began quietly to produce the drug. Cynics might characterize China’s role in producing RU-486 for America as an act of assisted suicide for the one nation blocking Beijing’s path to Asian hegemony and world power.
