Mid-Week Links: The Chen Guangcheng Story Is Moving Fast, So Here’s To Help You Catch Up [UPDATE]

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Went on BBC World Service’s World Have Your Say show again this evening to talk about Chen Guangcheng with some bloggers you’ll recognize, including C. Custer of China Geeks and Yaxue Cao of Seeing Red in China. By the way, there are many great stories related to China from these past two days that have nothing... Read more »

Chen Guangcheng Left The US Embassy Earlier Today

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Picture by China Aid via MSNBC Reports Reuters: A brief report by the Xinhua news agency broke China’s media silence. A senior U.S. official confirmed that Chen was out of the embassy. “Chen Guangcheng has arrived at a medical facility in Beijing where he will receive medical treatment and be reunited with his family,” said... Read more »

Top-of-the-Week Links: Chen Guangcheng Edition

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We begin with the Washington Post’s excellent story about the differences between Chen Guangcheng’s situation and Fang Lizhi‘s: Worried that taking refuge with American diplomats would allow China’s Communist Party to portray the Tiananmen protest as a U.S.-­orchestrated conspiracy, Fang decided after his first meeting at the embassy that he didn’t want U.S. help after... Read more »