Bit Player or Powerhouse? China and Stem-Cell Research

For more than a decade, China has been shocking the West. Although it is still poor and officially Communist, the world's most populous country has turned old convictions on their heads, emerging from decades of isolation to become a hive of high-tech manufacturing, a major diplomatic and military power, and one of the world's largest holders of U.S. securities. The subtitle of a recent book described the China phenomenon most succinctly when it promised, breathlessly, to explain “how the rise of the next superpower challenges America and the world.”¹In the area of scientific research, by contrast, both fact and . . .