Round-Trip Freedom
Chinese human-rights activist Chen Guangcheng is now safely in the US with his family. But the vision of universal human rights that he upholds can be fully realized only when, and if, China honors its promise to allow him one day to return home.
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NEW YORK – Western media describe my friend and colleague Chen Guangcheng as a blind activist who made a flight to freedom when China allowed him to journey from Beijing to the United States. What is essential about Chen is neither his blindness nor his family’s visit to the US, but the fact that he upholds a vision of universal human rights, a vision that can be fully realized only when, and if, China honors its promise to allow him one day to return home.