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May 1st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda A human rights activist prosecuted by Beijing is believed to have found shelter with the US embassy. The case triggered the greatest strain in ties between the two in decades. But ahead of high-level talks officials are keeping an awkward silence.
Washington, which has traditionally been very vocal about human rights issues in China, is now tight-lipped on the case of Chen Guangcheng, a prominent dissident believed to have found shelter at the US embassy.
“Obviously, I’m aware of the press reports on the situation in China, but I’m not going to make a statement on the issue,” US President Barack Obama told reporters on Monday.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton also refrained from mentioning the blind lawyer’s case, but said she would raise human rights issues at the coming meetings in Beijing. She said that “the freedom and free movement of people inside China” were “issues of great concern to us.”
Earlier, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland also refused to answer any questions saying “I have nothing for you on anything having to do with that matter.”
But as Obama is fighting for re-election this year he cannot ignore the case, which the media has dubbed the biggest human-rights issue between the US and China since Tiananmen Square.
Chen Guangcheng, a self-educated lawyer who fought against forced abortions “miraculously” escaped from under house arrest and made it to Beijing with the help of accomplices. US-based rights group ChinaAid claims Chen is in safety at the US embassy.
However one of Chen’s key helpers said that the lawyer wants reform, not asylum, and is not seeking to leave the country.
“He was adamant that he would not apply for political asylum with any country. He certainly wants to stay in China, and demand redress for the years of illegal persecution in Shandong [his home province] and continue his efforts for Chinese society,” Guo Yushan, a Beijing-based researcher and rights advocate said, as quoted by Reuters.
Both the United States and China would prefer that Chen go into exile, believes Yang Jianli, who runs the US-based group Initiatives for China. However the dissident is unlikely to do that, he said, according to Reuters. “He is not the [kind of] person who will give in. He is so determined to stay in China.”
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