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China's blind activist: watershed for human rights?

The quandary over Chen Guangcheng poses a stark choice for Premier Wen Jiabao: Embrace reform, or slip back into repression.

Chen Guangcheng says authorities threatened to kill his wife if he didn't stay in China

Chen Guangcheng tells reporters that he doesn't want to stay in China.

Chinese paramilitary guards march from the US embassy in Beijing on April 30, 2012. Chinese rights activist Chen Guangcheng is in the US embassy in Beijing but is not seeking asylum, fellow dissident Hu Jia said raising the spectre of a drawn-out China-US diplomatic standoff.

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