OPINION/COMMENTARY

Fear Factor Environmental activists seeking to halt the worldwide spread of the advanced technologies they fear see China as an important battleground. Predictably, Greenpeace is leading the charge against China's adoption of such technologies. In 2001, for example, the group ran a loud campaign demanding that the European Union not lend any money to help finance any Chinese nuclear power projects. Today, Greenpeace has China's acceptance of biotechnology in its crosshairs. Frontal assaults on Chinese ambitions to modernize could easily boomerang on Western NGOs like Greenpeace....