Thread: Chen Guangcheng

WOW…. these people are cold blooded.


Report: Biden Denied Asylum for Defecting Chinese Official
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2...m-for-defector

The office of Vice President Joe Biden overruled State and Justice Department officials in denying the political asylum request of a senior Chinese communist official last February over fears the high-level defection would upset the U.S. visit of China’s vice president, according to U.S. officials.

The defector, Wang Lijun, was turned away after 30 hours inside the U.S. Consulate Chengdu and given over to China’s Ministry of State Security, the political police and intelligence service.

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Report: Biden Denied Asylum for Defecting Chinese Official
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2...m-for-defector

5/4/2012


Chen to “Study Abroad”
Patterico @ 7:27 am

The Chinese dissident and opponent of forced abortion will be allowed to stay in the U.S. — perhaps not permanently, but at least past the 2012 elections (which is the important thing for Obama). In reporting the news, Ed Morrissey lists the Obama administration’s mistakes in handling this situation: http://hotair.com/archives/2012/05/0...-study-abroad/

Thus ends, one presumes, the shockingly inept performance from the State Department and the Obama administration in handling the Chen matter. The State Department all but pushed Chen out of the US embassy in Beijing, reneged on a promise to accompany him to a hospital, and then blamed Chen for the miscommunication. They let themselves be pushed around by Beijing, which miscalculated exactly how the rest of the world would react to their heavy-handed treatment of the anti-One Child Policy dissident, but that doesn’t let the White House off the hook for its callous abandonment of a democracy activist.

We are in the best, and most principled, of hands.

http://patterico.com/2012/05/04/chen-to-study-abroad/

To the Laogai for you! http://english.ntdtv.com/ntdtv_en/ne...-concerns.html

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Shorter Obama; “We must be humanitarians and accept the millions of illegals from Mexico— and if you disagree with me you’re a racist—but we just don’t have enough room in our country for this blind dissident from China whose family is being threatened with violence.”

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I wonder how much of that, if any, is affected by China requiring that women get an abortion instead of a law that forbids it? I can easily envision leftists like Obama and the NOW crowd being more uncomfortable about policies that mandate women go through with a birth instead of laws that ban women from ending a pregnancy.

I know a variety of environmentalists (virtually all of the left) appreciate pro-abortion sentiment and practices, and, yes, there are a variety of eugenicists (a motley assortment of oddball liberals and conservatives) who have great sympathy towards such things.

Beyond the purely political, in a modern culture that prizes convenience, feel-good self-centeredness, and cheap, easy sentiment, pro-abortion activities and attitudes are more likely to be treated with a wink and a shrug.

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They let themselves be pushed around by Beijing

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The last time I read it, the second child cost about $3,000.00 in child tax. Don’t know what happens if the parents cannot afford to pay it. Ship her out for adoption to sterile but rich American old maids? (Although the Chinese say they’ve stopped child-trafficking. To America at least, don’t know about Thailand.)

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Chen’s protests of the one-child policy and abortion http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/...lippery-slope/

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this is the first time Romney showed any awareness of any problem with China besides the value of their currency. If he doesn’t have the right people around him, he could do worse than Obama, except for things that only a Democrat could conceivably do. He’s not giving out an appearance of competence. He’s not. He never has.

Romney talked with Bloomberg too and misunderstood Bloomberg who wasn’t saying so much that he was doing an amazing job as that the city was. (There’s a big problem as to how he can get a decent successor)

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Sammy, let me defend Romney on this one.

The President has to conduct foreign policy. Romney isn’t the president right now, so he has to be careful how he criticizes Obama. Especially on this specific matter, which is an active issue. He needs to let Hillary and Obama do their job.

To some extent, politics stops at the water’s edge.

This sounds naive and even pointless in today’s totally politicized world, but it’s important. My hope is that Romney brings this kind of attitude with him, with far less political press conferences, and a less dramatic administration.

Romney spoke out, and that’s fine, but he kept things restrained, which is also good. There’s plenty of time to discuss this later. Ultimately, anyone paying attention has to see by now that Obama has made a number of bad calls in the past three and a half years. Romney can offer his own foreign policy (and so far it sounds good), without intervening directly in active matters (the way Obama surely will).

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The elephant in the room is the huge debt we now owe the PRC. No matter who the president is, it’s hard to take America seriously when it says anything about how it;s chief loanshark treats it;s own citizens. There’s also an old legend that when Nixon’s State Department hectored PRC about it’s treatment of dissidents and humn rights abuses, the PRC official ended the conversation by asking “Fine. How many million of these people do you want?”

The Chen Guangcheng exile deal: Happy ending or disaster?
By The Week's Editorial Staff | The Week – 5 hrs ago

Is this a good deal for all concerned, or could it still prove to be a disaster?

After a tense showdown between the U.S. and China, a blind activist waits to see whether Beijing will honor an agreement to let him study in the U.S.
The diplomatic crisis over Chen Guangcheng isn't over yet. Chen, a blind activist who escaped from house arrest and hid for six days in the U.S. embassy, had hoped to stay in China under a deal brokered last week by the Obama administration, but that arrangement quickly unraveled. Now, Chen says he's hopeful that Chinese leaders will respect a new agreement allowing him to go to the U.S. for a teaching fellowship, and take his family with him. "I still don't know when I'll leave, but it shouldn't be too long," Chen, a self-taught lawyer, tells Reuters.

"Analysis: Chen deal a face-saver for U.S. and China" : Everybody wins: The agreement to let Chen study in the U.S. could be "a face-saving measure for all involved," says Bradley Klapper of The Associated Press. Last week, the standoff was turning into an election-year headache for President Obama, a human-rights embarrasment for China, and a personal nightmare for Chen. Now "Washington can say it safeguarded human rights, Beijing can point to its cooperative diplomacy, and Chen gets a new start in America."

"Chen Guangcheng’s family and friends face tempest of retribution" :
This saga may hurt other Chinese activists: The suddenly-world-famous Chen isn't the only one whose future is on the line, says Andrew Higgins in The Washington Post. Remember, China's ruling Communist Party "has a long history of punishing not just those who challenge or embarrass it but also their families and friends." As the diplomatic wrangling unfolded, Beijing clamped down on foreign journalists and detained and even beat Chen's supporters. This deal may be good for Chen, but for other outspoken Chinese activists, the "tempest of retribution" may get worse.

"Will Chen Guangcheng be allowed to leave China? The waiting game continues" : And Chen isn't safe yet: "Between a fate of exile in the U.S. or potential confinement in China, Chen has no perfect choices," says Hannah Beech at TIME. He wanted to stay in China and "use the legal system on behalf of the country's masses," but Beijing never would have allowed that. Now we must wait and see whether China upholds its end of the bargain and lets Chen leave "tomorrow or next week or next month." The "waiting game is on."


http://news.yahoo.com/chen-guangchen...094800577.html

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China tightens restrictions on activist's family
By GILLIAN WONG | Associated Press – 47 mins ago.

BEIJING (AP) — Authorities in the hometown of activist Chen Guangcheng have notched up restrictions on members of his extended family while he awaits permission in Beijing to travel abroad under an agreement between China and the U.S.

Chen Guangcheng's brother and sister-in-law have been placed under house arrest, his nephew is in police detention, and several other relatives face some form of restriction on their movements in their village in Shandong province, according to Chen, his lawyers and a rights group.

Chen's flight from abusive house arrest in Shandong and into the protection of U.S. diplomats — which led to an agreement with Beijing to let him study in the U.S. accompanied by his wife and children — has exposed the impunity of local officials and embarrassed the central government. "I feel that Shandong's retribution against me has already started," Chen said in an interview Thursday from a hospital where he is being treated for injuries suffered during his dramatic escape from his guarded farm house.

U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Thursday the U.S. made inquiries with China and "expressed our concern should there be any sense of reprisal."

Chen's nephew, Chen Kegui, is believed to have been detained in relation to a clash with officials who reportedly broke into his home after the activist's escape in late April. The nephew's arrest notification allegedly says he is suspected of attempted "intentional homicide," said Liu Weiguo, a lawyer who volunteered to defend Kegui but has yet to see the notification document himself. Liu said at least one local Communist Party official was injured in the April 26 fight but no one died.

Local Shandong police in the city and county overseeing Chen's village said they weren't aware of the situation with Chen's family. Communist Party publicity officials could not be reached.

Chen has said a Chinese government official promised abuses he and his family suffered from authorities in Shandong would be investigated, but it is unclear if a probe has started. The authoritarian government is often mindful of not undermining or alienating local officials on whom it relies to enforce policies.

Police in the activist's town are searching for the nephew's wife and have threatened to detain his mother, Chen Guangcheng said. "I hope that this issue gets some attention and that lawyers are able to meet the family and have the case entrusted to them," he said. "They won't let the lawyers enter the village and won't let them interact with the family. In turn, they are taking revenge on my family like this. It is simply too outrageous."

The Chinese Human Rights Defenders network said around a dozen of Chen's relatives in the village of Dongshigu are under some form of house arrest. "Even when the international spotlight is on Chen, his extended family has been cut off from communicating with the outside world, and his nephew is in police custody," said Wang Songlian, a researcher with the group. "What is going to happen once the spotlight shifts? It is extremely worrying."

A self-taught legal activist, Chen gained recognition for crusading for the disabled and fighting against forced abortions in his rural community. But he angered local officials and was convicted in 2006 on what his supporters say were fabricated charges. After serving four years in prison, he then faced an abusive and illegal house arrest.

http://news.yahoo.com/china-tightens...102808946.html