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May 2nd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
One of Chen’s lawyers, Li Jingsong, said: “Today Chen is a free man. He
does not need a lawyer to accompany him to the clinic because it is not a
criminal case. We are all so happy for him. We will meet soon to discuss how
to take the next step. As a lawyer I want to sue the officials in Linyi (his
home town) who prosecuted Chen.”
Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, arrived in China on Wednesday for
the top-level talks that risk being upstaged by the Chen case.
On Wednesday, Mrs Clinton released a statement saying: “I am pleased that
we were able to facilitate Chen Guangcheng’s stay and departure from the US
embassy in a way that reflected his choices and our values. I was glad to
have the chance to speak with him today and to congratulate him on being
reunited with his wife and children.
Mr Chen has a number of understandings with the Chinese government about his
future, including the opportunity to pursue higher education in a safe
environment. Making these commitments a reality is the next crucial task.
The United States government and the American people are committed to
remaining engaged with Mr Chen and his family in the days, weeks, and years
ahead.”
Mr Chen earlier reportedly told Mrs Clinton “I want to kiss you”
after the US arranged a deal for his safety.
Hillary Clinton arrives in China amid Chen Guangcheng crisis
US officials told Reuters that embassy staff had helped the blind dissident
enter the mission in Beijing after he escaped from house arrest.
The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that Chen plans to
remain in China where the United States would continue to monitor how he was
being treated.
“This was an extraordinary case involving exceptional circumstances, and
we do not anticipate that it will be repeated,” one of the officials
said.
Zeng Jinyan, a close friend of Mr Chen says the blind activist agreed to stay
in China only to protect his family after receiving threats that his wife
would be beaten to death if he left the country.
China’s Foreign Ministry said it was extremely unhappy the embassy had taken
Chen in.
“It must be pointed out that the United States Embassy took the Chinese
citizen Chen Guangcheng into the embassy in an irregular manner, and China
expresses its strong dissatisfaction over this,” ministry spokesman Liu
Weimin said in a statement carried by the Xinhua state news agency.
“The US method was interference in Chinese domestic affairs, and this is
totally unacceptable to China. China demands that the United States
apologise over this, thoroughly investigate this incident, punish those who
are responsible, and give assurances that such incidents will not recur.”
Meanwhile rights lawyer Teng Biao said he had spoken briefly with Chen’s wife,
Yuan Weijing, and said that both she and their two children were now in
Beijing.
He had no details on how they had been treated since Mr Chen escaped.
Yuan Weijing with her husband and blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng
and their child
Mr Chen’s plight has overshadowed the Strategic and Economic Dialogue due to
begin on Thursday. The United States hopes the talks will encourage greater
Chinese cooperation on trade as well over Iran, Syria, North Korea and other
international disputes.
Relations could easily go awry, especially with the ruling Communist Party
wrestling with a leadership scandal and a looming power succession.
Before leaving for China on Monday, Mrs Clinton promised to press China’s
leaders on human rights, an issue that has dropped down the agenda between
the two countries in the more than two decades since the 1989 Tiananmen
Square crackdown.
Washington is preoccupied with President Barack Obama’s bid for re-election
late this year, but ructions in Chinese domestic politics have dogged ties,
causing the Obama administration to tread carefully in dealing with Beijing
which faces a leadership succession late this year.
“The vulnerability on the part of the Chinese leadership may in turn make
decision-makers even more cautious in foreign policy issues,” said
Cheng Li, an expert on Chinese politics at the Brookings Institution, a
think-tank in Washington D.C.
A commentary in China’s official People’s Daily overseas edition said the
United States was “disturbing still waters” by setting up military
bases in Asia, selling weapons to the region and interfering in the South
China Sea dispute.
Washington had already become entangled in Chinese political upheavals in
February, when Wang Lijun, a vice mayor in Chongqing in southwest China,
fled to a US consulate for a day and denounced his boss, Bo Xilai, and Bo’s
wife, Gu Kailai, whom Wang accused of killing a British businessman, Neil
Heywood.
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