It is easy to allow ourselves to be lulled into a state of confident ignorance when it comes to the state of bioethics in countries other than our own. We presume to know what issues are important, what patients want, which policies are being debated, and, at the very least, how our international colleagues are viewing the general bioethics landscape. In a field where we say “good ethics begin with good facts,” we are often woefully ill prepared to see and understand the larger picture.