Negotiations were appeasement, the new administration believed, not a tool to advance American security.

CNN: Commentary: Bill Clinton shows that diplomacy works

So whatever we may think about free trade or open borders, we have to remember that every economic advantage we extend to China gives its leaders one more tool to advance their geopolitical goals.

FORBES: China's New Economic Warfare

Whatever the benefits, there's no getting away from the fact that human embryonic material has become a research tool for the pharmaceutical industry - that the moral status of the embryo has been lowered for the sake of medical advance, profits, and extending the lives of an increasingly elderly rich western population.

BBC: Embryonic stem cells can be turned into any kind of cell