In what I view as an act of passive aggression towards the United States, China has placed heavy limitations on organ transplants for non-Chinese patients.

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BEIJING - China issued guidelines Tuesday restricting organ transplants for foreigners, giving priority to Chinese patients in the government’s latest effort to regulate procedures that have been criticized as profit-driven and unethical.

Little information about China’s lucrative transplant business is publicly available. One human rights activist said there is fierce competition among hospitals to attract the foreigners, who make up an estimated 30 to 40 percent of transplant patients in China.