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Saturday, May 5, 2012

China: solution to the Chen case, a study visa for the U.S

After days of tension China and America make several steps forward in solving the case of Chen Guangcheng, a Chinese dissident who with his sensational escape the embassy in Beijing USA had triggered a major diplomatic crisis between the two nations. "The latest positions taken by the Chinese Foreign Ministry said they are encouraging-the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during a press conference in Beijing during the day-and we achieved some progress on the situation of Chen Guangcheng." As you read about AgiChina24. it, Friday 'the Beijing government allowed U.S. officials to the doctor and the U.S. Embassy to meet with Chen after a ban that lasted three days. The climate had already softened 'a few hours before, with the opening of the Chinese Foreign Ministry to the hypothesis of an activist grant to study in a foreign country, and a visit to a dissident officer of the Central Committee of the CCP. The solution that is looming and 'thus that of a student visa for the United States and request political asylum, which would have seriously embarrassed both Beijing and Washington. The U.S. State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland said on the margins of the Conference of Hillary Clinton that a university 'U.S. has already' Chen offered a scholarship, and political activist will be able to 'be accompanied by his wife and two children."The Chinese government announced that it will accept 'the demand for Chen to obtain the necessary documents-Nuland said-and we expect that the procedure will be' completed soon.  Washington will grant 'the priority' to request a visa to Chen and for his family. " As you read about AgiChina24.it, the story of Chen had fallen on the evening of Wednesday ', when the dissident from the flight-proven and years of abuse-had begun to issue conflicting statements. Chen told that he left the U.S. embassy to undergo medical treatment at a hospital in Beijing only for fear of reprisals to his family. The dissident had also changed version of his intentions, saying at first the decision to stay in China, and then to seek asylum in the United States. Chen Guangcheng, forty years old, blind from childhood, and 'a self-taught lawyer and who' fought against the practice of forced abortions applied by officials of his province to maintain the dimensions of births set by central government.  In 2010 he had been subjected under house arrest without formal charges, a common practice in China to control dissidents. The following year, defying censorship, had posted a video documenting the violence that was given by local police.  When Chen Guangcheng is still in the hospital with his family in Beijing in which 'hospitalized for three fractures reported in escape. If the student visa will be 'granted in the near future, as now seems likely, the Obama administration that the Beijing government will tone down a story that has held both on the edge right in the course of an important bilateral summit .

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