Posted on 05/03/2012 6:25:25 PM PDT by Coleus
The State Department painted it as an elegant way out of a ballooning crisis involving Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng but by days end, it looked like a disgraceful performance by US diplomats.
Initial reports had Chen so pleased by the deal that he told Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, I want to kiss you.
The agreement Clinton negotiated with Beijing yesterday supposedly allowed Cheng to stay in China and get medical attention, with the authorities guaranteeing his future safety.
But things started unraveling just hours after the compromise was inked. First, while State claims Chen never wanted to leave China, the dissident said he and his family would rather leave. And it looks like he was all but forced out of the US embassy, where hed sought asylum.
A quick recap: Chen, a blind man, is a fierce critic of Beijings one child policy; hes led lawsuits about the forced abortions and sterilizations it has produced. That activism landed him in jail for seven years, followed by constant harassment of him, his family and allies.
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Investigations? By whom - our “fearless” House? They’ve been so tough on Holder and Fast and Furious, haven’t they? /sarc
This entire administration has none of the same interests as the American people.
Yep. I wish to God we had a candidate (like Newt) who’d educate the masses about all such travesties BHO et al are committing because there are so many it should be a no-brainer. Will Mittens have the guts, brains and conviction to do so as he did against his primary rivals?
God help us.
Hillary is in a state of shock. The ChiComs lied to her. Can you believe it?
Spoken like a true Ron Paul fan.
It’s the incompetent (or duplicitous) way this was handled by BHO/HRC that disgraces us in the eyes of the world. I’m in no way saying we should routinely take foreigners in. But now this thing is an international incident that probably won’t end well, and thanks to the One’s regime, we’ll look like all manner of a**holes.
Me a liberal? Don’t make me laugh. Life would be a LOT easier if I were. After all, ignorance is bliss - right?
Always room for another under The Good Bus Obama.
Yep, and that's not the worst part. The worst part is you want to take my hard earned tax money and fund a Chinese dissident while your countrymen are struggling to put food on their "American" tables. Again, I could give less than a damn about China, Israel or Palestine. Let them fight it out to the death. You know like we did in the 1800s, and whoever is still breathing at the end wins--WITHOUT MY DAMN TAX DOLLARS! When they bleed, fight, die and pay for their country's victory it will mean more to them than having my fellow Americans finance it.
Not incompetent, deliberately evil. They know what they're doing, bowing to our communist overlords who hold a lot of our nation's debt and are likeminded destroyers of innocent life.
Yep, the Clinton Administration.
Hillary Clinton had no business being appointed Secretary of State. She is a mediocre woman who only knows how to run a war room against her fellow Americans. She’s a fraud and a fool.
U r right about that. The house keeps “mulling” over a contempt citation for Holder. Never quite getting it done.
It’s getting worse. The Chinese are gradually taking over the research money spent by the U.S. Their funding of our deficit is to keep us employed as lab technicians for China Inc.
I know - from what I hear, the Repub leaders are divided over this! Why? What are they afraid of?? No wonder BHO’s circle laughs and thumbs its collective nose at them.
Because China owns America?
Because it's none of our damn business and we have 8.1% percent unemployment in America! All you bleeding heart libs should be ringing your hands and crying about that. Americans are eating cat food and you libs are whining about a blind China-man. Just give up your citizenship and go fight China's battles. We don't need you or your type in America. We need Americans fighting for Americans.
Good riddance, troll.
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APRIL - MAY 2012 : (SOMETIME IN THIS PERIOD STATE DEPT EMPLOYEE CANDICE CLAIBORNE PROVIDES HER CHINESE HANDLER WITH INFORMATION ON CHINESE DISSIDENT CHEN GUANGCHENG, WHO WAS SECRETLY STAYING AT THE US EMBASSY IN BEIJING— SHE WOULD BE ARRESTED IN APRIL 2017 FOR ACCEPTING BRIBES FROM THE CHINESE IN EXCHANGE FOR GIVING THEM INFORMATION) -— http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/03/state-department-employee-accused-of-aiding-chinese-spies.html
Thanks for the ping! And Chen wanted to kiss Hillary?—ew—he’s lucky he was blind. . .
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