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Dissident's Protest Inspires Ordinary Chinese
The US Secretaries of State and Treasury are scheduled to leave Washington for Beijing, and Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell is already there, as the Obama Administration rushes to contain a diplomatic crisis over escaped blind dissident who's escaped from house arrest in China.
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readThe US Secretaries of State and Treasury are scheduled to leave Washington for Beijing, and Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell is already there, as the Obama Administration rushes to contain a diplomatic crisis over escaped blind dissident who's escaped from house arrest in China. So far there is no public confirmation that Chen Guangcheng has taken refuge in the US Embassy in Beijing. Jeff Wasserstrom is Professor of History at University of California at Irvine and the author of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know.
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3 of 3Los Angeles, 20 Years after the Riots- 0:00Drone Strike in Pakistan May Upend Delicate Negotiations
- 8:05What Can the Rest of the Country Learn from the LA Riots?
- 46:29Dissident's Protest Inspires Ordinary ChineseYou’re reading this