teach in France—Viénet elected in 1979 to move to Asia, where, over the next thirty years, he was involved in various business ventures In 1982, he brokered a twenty-year enriched-uranium contract for the Taiwan Power Company, meeting one-third of the need of its six reactors’ fuel-rods. This is discussed in an article in the February 2020 issue of the Question Chine newsletter, including picturesque details of dogfights with some French officials.[1] Since his youth—and in a way that certainly makes him the odd one out among fellow Situationists — Viénet has championed peaceful nuclear energy and disparaged the illusion of subsidized wind-power, which he believes is the best ally of polluting fossil-fuel-generated electricity. Among his other business achievements is his work in the medical field, where he initiated and launched emergency contraception products in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Clinical trials conducted at his initiative in Taiwan led to the official licensing on the island of RU486 (mifepristone). This medication allows the interruption of early pregnancy (IoEP) and is the medicinal alternative to surgical abortion. He was the co-founder and manager of a company undertaking the low-cost production in Taiwan of a generic misoprostol, (trademarked by Viénet as GyMiso), which is the necessary complement to mifepristone for medicinal IoEP. It was approved for use in France, then in the rest of Europe, where it created substantial cost savings for various public health systems because doctors in private practice could use it, not just hospitals, where the Cytotec brand had previously been used off-label. In France today, the RU486 + GyMiso IoEP regimen + two doctor visits is practically free of charge for all women, the actual cost of over two hundred euros including doctor’s visits being reimbursable under the national health system. More recently, Viénet has been looking for partners to launch no-cost emergency contraception, based on a 10-mg micro-dose of mifepristone, which is patent-free, side-effect-free, well known, proven to be the best alternative, and in fact very cheap to produce. In Vietnam, for example, the public retail price of Mf10mg in pharmacies is under 50 U.S. cents per dose. It remains to be seen whether Viénet can succeed against the fat cats of contraception, who sell a cheaply produced ersatz version of Mifepristone (ulipristal acetate, branded as EllaOne) at a hundred times the price in Vietnam. In 2003 Viénet founded Éditions René Viénet, which has published several books unwelcome at