This may have been Chen Guangcheng’s only alternative in effecting an incredible escape from house detention. But I fear that he may be sent back to his captors. When it comes to communist regimes our government has a history of doing that to refugees.
MSNBC World New: Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng is under U.S. protection after a bold escape from 19 months under house arrest, sources told NBC News on Monday, a revelation that looked sure to complicate Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s looming trip to Beijing.
“My sources tell me that Chen is, indeed, under U.S. protection in Beijing. Now we don’t know whether that means he’s actually within the walls of the American Embassy compound, or in a diplomatic safe house, but he’s definitely in U.S. hands there,” NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell said on TODAY Monday. Read more here.