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Chen Guangcheng flies out of China, arrives in U.S. The blind activist arrived in Newark on Saturday afternoon after Chinese officials and American diplomats swiftly arranged his travel out of the country for an uncertain new life in the United States.
May 19, 2012
Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng, center, is helped from a vehicle as he arrives in New York. China allowed him to leave a hospital in Beijing in a move that could signal the end of a diplomatic rift between the two countries.
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May 19, 2012
A woman holds a sign bearing the likeness of Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng as she waits for his arrival at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J.
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May 19, 2012
Chen Guangcheng arrives at the New York University Village apartment complex in Manhattan.
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May 19, 2012
Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng and his wife, Yuan Weijing, greet the media after their arrival at the New York University Village apartment complex in Manhattan.
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May 19, 2012
Chen Guangcheng, center, is helped before speaking to the media as he arrives in New York.
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May 19, 2012
The injured foot of Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng is pictured next to recording equipment from the media as he speaks during his arrival in New York.
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May 19, 2012
Chen Guangcheng, center, speaks to members of the media after arriving in New York.
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May 19, 2012
Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng, center, leaves after talking to the media after his arrival in New York.
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May 19, 2012
Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, in a wheelchair, is helped before boarding a commercial flight at Beijing International Airport in Beijing. Chen was hurriedly taken from a hospital in Beijing and boarded a plane that took off for Newark, ending a nearly monthlong diplomatic tussle that had tested U.S.-China relations.
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May 19, 2012
This video image taken from AP video shows Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, second right, being pushed in a wheelchair on the tarmac to an elevator at Beijing International Airport.
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May 4, 2012
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton attend the joint statement reading for the closing of the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue at the Diaoyutai Guesthouse in Beijing. China said that blind activist Chen Guangcheng can apply to study abroad, offering a possible resolution to a crisis that erupted when he escaped house arrest and fled to the U.S. Embassy. The apparent concession came after Chen said he was in "great danger" and urged China's government to honor guarantees on his safety, and after he phoned U.S. lawmakers in a dramatic appeal for help to leave the country.
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May 4, 2012
Two unidentified men are surrounded by journalists after arriving in a U.S. Embassy vehicle at an underground parking lot of a hospital where blind activist lawyer Chen Guangcheng was admitted in Beijing. China hinted at a possible, face-saving way out of a diplomatic standoff with the United States over Chen, saying Friday that he could apply for permission to study abroad.
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May 4, 2012
A plainclothes security person reacts near uniformed security guards at the entrance of a hospital where blind activist lawyer Chen Guangcheng is admitted in Beijing.
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May 4, 2012
Chinese residents flash the victory signs at journalists as they are asked to move by a Chinese police officer outside the hospital where blind activist lawyer Chen Guangcheng is admitted in Beijing.
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May 4, 2012
A protester is removed by police from outside the Chaoyang Hospital in Beijing where Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng is staying.
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May 2, 2012
Family members of blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng, wife Yuan Weijing, back row second right, daughter Chen Kesi, front row center, and son Chen Kerui, front row left, pose for a photo with U.S. officials in Beijing. With the family are U.S. ambassador to China Gary Locke, crouching, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs, Kurt Campbell, back row second left, and U.S. State Department legal advisor Harold Koh, right. At left is Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Michael Posner.
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May 2, 2012
On his way from the U.S. Embassy in Beijing to the hospital, Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng talks on the phone as U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke looks on.
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May 2, 2012
Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng, left, holds hands with Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kurt M. Campbell in Beijing.
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May 2, 2012
Chen Guangcheng, center, writes on a paper as he is accompanied by U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke, right, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell, center behind Chen, and U.S. State Department legal adviser Harold Koh, left, at the U.S. Embassy before leaving for a hospital in Beijing.
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May 4, 2012
U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke, right, holds blind activist Chen Guangcheng's hands as they talk in Beijing.
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May 3, 2012
Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J,), second from left, Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.), left, and Chinese dissident and president of ChinaAid Bob Fu listen to Chinese human rights lawyer Chen Guangcheng on the phone during a hearing before the Congressional Executive Commission on China on Capitol Hill in Washington. The commission held a hearing to focus on the latest development of the escape of Chen from his house detention by local authorities and his controversial departure from the protection of U.S. Embassy in Beijing.
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May 2, 2012
In a photo released by U.S. officials, blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, center, shakes hands with Gary Locke, right, the U.S. ambassador to China in Beijing, as he prepares to leave the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.
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As he prepares to leave the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, Chen Guangcheng hugs Kurt M. Campbell, the assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, as U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke, right, looks on.
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May 2, 2012
Chen Guangcheng, who is blind, spent six days at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing after fleeing de facto house arrest in April.
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May 2, 2012
Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng, in a wheelchair, holds the hand of U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke, right, on his way into the Chaoyang hospital.
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Chinese activist activist Chen Guangcheng is pushed in a wheelchair at the Chaoyang hospital in Beijing.
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Hospital security prepares to evict reporters trying to catch a glimpse of activist Chen Guangcheng at the Chaoyang hospital in Beijing.
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May 2, 2012
A man holds up a sign that reads "Freedom Guangcheng, Democracy China" outside Chaoyang hospital in Beijing.
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May 2, 2012
A U.S. Embassy vehicle leaves Chaoyang hospital in Beijing, where blind activist Chen Guangcheng was receiving treatment after leaving the embassy.
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May 2, 2012
Chinese military police march to change guard outside the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.
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April 30, 2012
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta talk to reporters in the Treaty Room at the State Department in Washington, D.C. Ahead of her visit to China, Clinton declined to answer specific questions about Chen.
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April 30, 2012
Pro-democracy protesters wearing sunglasses hold placards with pictures of blind activist Chen Guangcheng with his family, left sign, and Chinese activist He Peirong, center sign, outside China’s Liaison Office in Hong Kong.
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April 28, 2012
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Chen Guangcheng, right, poses with his wife and son Chen Kerui in Dondshigu village, northeast China's Shandong province.
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In this undated file photo, Blind activist Chen Guangcheng, center, is seen in a village in China.
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Blind Chinese legal activist Chen Guangchen in Shandong province, China.
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April 2012
Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng, left, meets with Hu Jia, another activist, at an undisclosed location.
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