4/03Amount the U.S. withheld from the U.N. Population Fund last year, citing links to forced abortions in China: $34,000,000

The Alan Guttmacher Institute (Washington)

    Months after the State Department had cleared the U.N. of such connections that the funds were withheld nonetheless: 2

The Alan Guttmacher Institute (Washington)

5/05Percentage of owners of private businesses in China who are members of the Communist Party: 34

Xinhua News Agency, 2/10/05

    Percentage of all adults in China who are: 5

Embassy of the People’s Republic of China (Washington)

1/06Percentage change last year in foreign direct investment in China: ‒2.1

Foreign Direct Investment Administration (Beijing)

6/94Percentage of all natural-gas and oil fields licensed by Vietnam last year that are in waters claimed by China: 100

U.S. Central Intelligence Agency/U.S. Dept. of Energy/John Lithblau, Petroleum Industry Research Associates (N.Y.C.)

11/00Number of bears bred for their bile at China’s 247 licensed bear farms in 1998: 6,764

International Fund for Animal Welfare (Beijing)