Calum McLeod
USA Today
May 19, 2012
More than 22,000 students from mainland China travel to the USA each year to further their education. None arrived with the drama and diplomatic baggage of blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng, now set to study law at New York University.
Almost a month since his dramatic escape from house arrest — and subsequent refuge inside the U.S. Embassy— sparked a diplomatic tussle between Washington and Beijing, Chen arrived at Newark Liberty International Airport Saturday evening with his wife and two children. He had been hurriedly taken from a Beijing hospital earlier in the day and put on a plane after authorities told him to prepare to leave.
Dressed in a white shirt and khaki pants and using crutches, his right leg in a cast, Chen was greeted with cheers when he arrived at the apartment in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village where he will live with his family. The complex houses faculty and graduate students of New York University, where Chen is expected to attend law school.
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