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Activist Chen Guangcheng: Let Me Leave China on Hillary Clinton’s Plane -- Daily Beast

In an exclusive interview with The Daily Beast’s Melinda Liu, blind dissident Chen Guangcheng says he’s been abandoned by American officials at a Chinese hospital and begs to leave the country on Hillary Clinton’s plane.

I’ve known Chen Guangcheng for more than a decade—he’s been through intimidation, beatings, jail, and extralegal house arrest—but through it all I never sensed he was scared. Now he’s scared. Chen, whose case has escalated into a bilateral crisis that threatens to dominate Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to Beijing this week, was weeping as he talked to me over the phone from his hospital bed.

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My Comment: Life is going to now be harder for Chen Guangcheng. China is a run by an authoritarian government .... and they are not open to having their citizens publicly embarrass or criticize the government. As for how the U.S. government has handled itself in this affair .... to put it bluntly .... they have completely failed in protecting Chen .... and what is worse .... they are now signalling to dissidents around the world that America is not the place of refuge that many have been brought up to believe. As for Secretary of State Clinton (who is now in China) .... no public announcement has come from her office. I can only hope that privately she is expressing a different tack .... but .... for some reason I have my doubts.