By Victor M Adamus
I have to hand it to Hillary Clinton. She has the most cumbersome of jobs as
Secretary of State. Imagine all she had
on her mind going to China last week only to be confronted by a blind dissident
who made his way to the American Embassy, seeking asylum, just prior to her
leaving the U.S. Needless to say, it was
a distraction from her planned itinerary.
A diplomatic storm gathered around Chen Guangcheng for the
entire time Clinton was in China. Chen
was hospitalized during the visit and U.S. Embassy officials were not allowed
to be present. Rumors spread by twitter
that the Beiging hospital said he was “severely beaten by police while there
and is under constant surveillance”. His
only contact with Clinton had been by phone.
The past two decades China has acted more like an industrial
nation than a communist one as they turned to capitalism to run massive
manufacturing plants employing millions of Chinese. But it was the Communist Party that took
offense to the dissident asking to leave China, with Clinton, to study law in
the United States.
His six day stay at the American Embassy put his family in
danger and he tried to negotiate a fast process of paperwork so he and his
family could leave with Clinton. But
that was not possible. According to Vice
President Joe Biden he was offered a seat at the law school at New York
University.
Chen had been under house arrest since 2010 for his efforts
to challenge forced abortions by the State.
China only allows married couples to have one child. His escape to the Embassy was an
embarrassment to China’s vast security operations which has a larger budget
than the military.
U.S. Diplomats report Chen is in the system and believe that
a ruling to permit him to travel to the U.S. on a student Visa with his family
could come within the next ten days.
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