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US seeks options for Chinese activist

Officials barred from seeing Chen in Beijing hospital

By Jane Perlez

 |  New York Times  

  May 04, 2012

A senior Obama administration official said Thursday that the United States recognizes that Chen Guangcheng, the blind dissident lawyer, wants to leave China, an apparent reversal of Chen’s earlier stance that injected new uncertainty into a tense diplomatic situation. The crisis had briefly appeared to be resolved ahead of high-level economic talks here when Chen earlier embraced a plan to remain in China.

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