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Dissident From China Arrives in U.S., Ending an Ordeal

Chen Guangcheng, the blind legal advocate who recently sought refuge in the American Embassy in Beijing, arrived in the heart of Greenwich Village on Saturday, holding the kind of open-air news conference that he could have never imagined while under virtual house arrest in China.

After a daylong and hastily arranged flight from Beijing, Mr. Chen stood on crutches — with a lawyer at his side and facing spectators cordoned off by the police — and addressed a throng of reporters. He said he was grateful to the American Embassy and the Chinese government, which allowed him to leave China, and thanked Chinese officials for “dealing with the situation with restraint and calm.”

“I hope to see that they continue to open discourse and earn the respect and trust of the people,” said Mr. Chen, one of China’s most prominent dissidents, who spoke through a translator near the New York University apartment tower that will become his home.

It was not clear weeks ago that China would permit Mr. Chen to leave, and the United States’ role in his evading the authorities threatened to cause a diplomatic breach just as American officials were seeking China’s cooperation on a range of economic and security issues it considers crucial.

Mr. Chen’s departure from Beijing on Saturday, and the arduous negotiations that led up to it, appeared to reflect careful calculations in both countries that the episode was not worth jeopardizing relations. The Chinese, who were initially infuriated and complained bitterly about what they considered interference in their internal affairs, in the end quietly engaged with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and a team of diplomats to defuse the situation.

The trip to New York ended an improbable journey that began in late April, when despite his lack of sight, Mr. Chen scaled the walls around his house, sneaked past the guards who held him captive and was whisked to Beijing by a human rights activist. American officials agreed to provide at least temporary shelter, but the pickup almost went awry: Chinese security cars trailed their vehicle, forcing them to sweep Mr. Chen into their car from another vehicle and race through the streets of the capital to the embassy.

Jerome A. Cohen, a New York University law professor who helped arrange Mr. Chen’s fellowship, said he thought Beijing would be eager to blunt the domestic impact of Mr. Chen’s departure. “The last thing they want,” he said, “is for this deal to symbolize a way out of China for dissidents.”

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The great secret of success is to treat all disasters as incidents， and none of the incidents as disasters.

He will have a civil and free circumstance,where he can speak anything .

The matter of Chen  reflect   China's awful  political state today.
The government treated Chen Guangcheng's problem so unwise.There are two possible reasons:
1) The Chinese authorities  know Chen Guangcheng , but don't know  he suffered from the illegal treatment;
2) the Chinese authorities  know the illegal treatment on Chen Guangcheng is a mistake, but don't want to admit ,and not willing to make corrections seen as a weak;
Neither can inspire public confidence in the government's governance and public relations capabilities.

This topic is hard to comment, and I hope I can learn more by reading the comments. Thanks for sharing that!

I don't know what had happend to Chen, however the human right in the our country really needs to be reconsidered and to improve the situation.