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| You may be looking at a "famous" picture dating back to the here and now. Meet Chen Guangcheng, blind from age one, and seeking asylum in the American Embassy in China. |
Reports are that Chen requested American asylum while State Department authorities deny that he ever made that request.
Problem: how and why does a totally blind Chinese activist living under house arrest in a region far from the American Embassy, get to that Embassy without someone picking him up and driving him to that Embassy? How does he arrive at that "human rights sanctuary" without American help? And why would that happen, if he was not seeking asylum? It seems clear that someone at the American Embassy actually helped Guangcheng as he sought protection in the embassy. And now, the whole matter has blown-up in the Administration's face.
Well, we are not the only ones asking these questions. The Chinese government wants to know, as well, and they are rather upset about the whole affair.
Going into the seventh day of this ridiculous matter, there are no clear answers coming from our Ambassador to China, Gary Locke, or Hillary Clinton, the Secretary of State, which is all a very bad sign, in and of itself. Understand that this problem is becoming a major major issue as we speak, conflicting Chinese/American relations.
It has gotten so bad, that the Chinese government is now demanding an apology.
Understand that, as is the case with any number of potential Obama era scandals (Fast and Furious, Solyndra, the Administrations involvement with MF Global), clear answers are not to be found. The problem with the Administration's standard fare in dealing with scandal is found in the fact that the Chinese are in the driver's seat and may force the Administration to make decisions and/or admissions it does not want to make. Without China funding a significant portion of Obama's deficit spending strategy, without it's supply of solar panels and wind machines, Obama's whole domestic economic strategy falls flat on it is face. In a sense, they own him. He has to bow and scrape in the presence of Chinese demands . . . . . . . or does? I mean, there is always "courage" and "doing the right thing" regarding Chen and the potentially dangerous circumstance in which the activist now finds himself.
I know, after reading report after report, that confusion reigns supreme. It is a fact that the Administration has proven itself as incompetent as any in recent memory. It continues to sit and watch as Iran becomes a nuclear power. It refused to act when a multi-million dollar spy drone went down in that country, an intelligence "gift" to Iran that may prove to be catastrophic for the region and Israel, in particular. This Administration sided with the communist wannabe dictator in Honduras with Obama publicly embarrassing himself, making statements that would later be rescinded. His reset policy with Russia has failed, and now, this.
In their report, the Financial Times gives us the opinion of David Lampton, a China expert at John Hopkins:
“This is the most complicated period in US-China relations
since 1989. In some ways it is more complicated, if not as tragic, as
that period.”
And there you have it. It is a shame that all we know for sure is that this time is being compared to 1989, with a couple of significant differences. One is found in the fact that Reagan was the president in 1989, not Obama, and, two, the problematic issue of the day was the creation of the Chinese, not the Americans. The Red Chinese had squashed a public demonstration, killing hundreds of its citizens in Tiananmen Square in June of that year.
By contrast, the current "crisis" has been caused by sheer Administration buffoonery and, sadly, we have not seen the end of this matter.
Another reason to kiss Obama's skinny, black behind, good-bye? I say, "Pucker up and wish him the best !! "
Updated news:
In an exclusive interview with The Daily Beast's Melinda Liu, blind dissident Chen Guangcheng says he's been abandoned by American officials at a Chinese hospital and begs to leave the country on Hillary Clinton's plane
From the Weekly Standard May 3
But that doesn't seem likely: Clinton, who is in China now, completely ignored Chen in her remarks as part of the so-called U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue. She did not mention him once.
Clinton briefly mentioned human rights, however, but merely in a vague, passive way.
"Now of course, as part of our dialogue, the United States raises the importance of human rights and fundamental freedoms because we believe that all governments do have to answer to citizens’ aspirations for dignity and the rule of law, and that no nation can or should deny those rights," Clinton said, without bringing up specific cases where the Chinese government violated the rights of its citizens. "As President Obama said this week, a China that protects the rights of all its citizens will be a stronger and more prosperous nation, and of course, a stronger partner on behalf of our common goals."
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