Earlier this year, Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng escaped house arrest in China and eventually made it to the United States. In his first national broadcast interview since arriving in New York City, Chen talks with The Takeaway about his campaign to improve disability rights in China.
Jerome Cohen, a key adviser to Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng says he's hoping to welcome the blind activist to New York University's School of Law.
Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng has been given permission to study abroad. The US says it expects China to move quickly to allow the legal activist, Chen Guangcheng, to travel.
Chen Guangcheng, who perhaps will be coming to the United States to study law, has a story that seems like it's come straight out of a Hollywood movie studio. Experts say that's probably intentional -- with Chinese activists becoming more sophisticated about how they can appeal to an American audience.
Chen Guangcheng may be coming to the United States after all. The State Department announced Friday morning that a U.S. university had offered him a fellowship and Chinese officials said he could apply for study abroad, like thousands of Chinese do every year. It's the latest development in a tumultuous diplomatic negotiation between the two countries.
Chen Guangcheng has been persecuted in China for his work pressing for an end to forced abortions and sterilizations under China's "one-child" policy. And that work has helped Chen gain support in the US.
Guangcheng is pleading for foreign asylum a day after leaving the US embassy creating new strains in relations between China and the United States.