Susan Shirk Expressed Concerns on Chen Guangcheng's Case
Chen Guangcheng, blind Chinese activist, calls into Hill hearing again
05/15/2012
William Wan,
Washington Post
Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng called into a U.S. congressional hearing for the second time in two weeks Tuesday and said his relatives have been persecuted in retaliation for his escape from house arrest.
He expressed particular concern for his nephew, Chen Kegui, who has been arrested and accused of intent to murder, charges the activist called "trumped up." He said Chinese authorities have threatened and harassed lawyers attempting to represent his nephew, making it all but impossible for them to see him.
Chen Guangcheng said such tactics are similar to what local officials used against him when they were trying to silence his work against forced abortions and coercive sterilization of women.
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Susan Shirk is the chair of the 21st Century China Program and Ho Miu Lam Professor of China and Pacific Relations at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS) at UC San Diego. She also is director emeritus of the University of California system-wide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC) and chair of the IGCC International Advisory Board.
In 1993, she founded, and continues to lead, the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue (NEACD), an unofficial “track-two” forum for discussions of security issues among defense and foreign ministry officials and academics from the United States, Japan, China, Russia, and the Koreas.
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