Beijing (CNN) -- A possible breakthrough emerged on Friday in the case of Chen Guangcheng, the Chinese activist who made a daring escape from house arrest and took refuge in the U.S. Embassy in Beijing before venturing out amid U.S.-Chinese negotiations over his future.
The Chinese government noted that he could apply to travel to the United States to study -- a development that the United States instantly cited as an encouraging sign of progress in what has been a thorny and controversial impasse.
"As a Chinese citizen, he may apply like other Chinese citizens according to the laws and normal procedures of the relevant departments," Liu Weimin, a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, said in a statement posted on the ministry's website.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the United States is "encouraged" by the statement.
"From the beginning all of our efforts with Mr. Chen have been guided by his choices and our values, and I'm pleased that today our ambassador has spoken with him again, our embassy staff and our doctor had a chance to meet with him and he confirms that he and his family now want to go to the United States so he can pursue his studies," Clinton told reporters in Beijing.
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Howie'd bee furst, I betcha. Also.
Good Morning,
Jo, thanks for letting us know about your situation. My thoughts are with you. Blood clots are dangerous and if aspirin and other precautions help, yes, that's encouraging.
I've enjoyed hearing about the Goobey, (spell?) sounds like a lovable soul. Yes, dogs are wonderful, all about love, devotion, connection. I can't imagine a life without a dog.
Hot and dry here again, will water the new plantings. I had a small aspen grove, about three inches high growing, and a vicious rabbit at the leaves. Grrr.
Thanks again, Jo, for this place.
Jo, I'm glad that it was no worse than it was. Am horribly familiar with the blowing of veins and failure to find. After my thyroidectomy in my mid forties, one of the best teaching hospitals in the country did that to me. One of only three times I've just sat and sobbed while being "treated". . . . And the absolute worst part of the five days in cardiac last year was the visits from hematology. . . . They were sensitive enough to stop after two tries and send for the *extra good* talent.
I can lurk again!
Jo, I'm sending Light and Prayers your way. And I've just lit one of those fabulous battery operated candles for you; safe and can burn for hours.
Some of us are passing around the hard-core news about the real truth about Afghanistan and the Banks.
So there's a *shadow blog.* lol
Blessings and good health to all of you.
Sea
Vicious bunnies, ack! All of Mother's critters is hongry just now! It's every plant and bud for itself! I'm fascinated watching the local gardeners trying to protect their veggies. The newest one, for the past couple of years is fence extensions: 6 or 8 foot wood poles tied/wired to the regular poles with fencing strung on 'em. Don't have a klew if they really work: for years, the "guard" of choice was a series of IGA bags tied along the fence line. . . .
thank you seashell. my best to you as well. perhaps absence does make the heart grow fonder.
glad you have a shadow blog. I have no problem with people posting factual information; it's the wild hyperbole, repetition and anger and meanness by some that was getting to me on the old blog.
puddle I always thought that it made sense to have a barrier of some sort but then to plant a small patch outside of the barrier so the wildlife could eat yet leave the 'harder to get' veggies for their human friends.
that's kind of how I keep the squirrels out of the birdfeeders - they get some piles of food along the path, away from the feeders. and it works most of the time!
Jo, it's *bears* we're having a hard time keeping out of the birdfeeders, a problem listener shares with Governor Shumlin, lol! (*NOT* the nekkid part.)
One of my homesteading books had a prescription for the only deer-proof fence: (aside from just an 8 foot fence): a six foot fence (which deer can jump *if* they have a run) surrounded four feet out by a four-foot fence, which they can jump from a stand. So they can jump in the alley, and back out, but can't make the six footer from that close. She used the intervening four foot alley as a chicken run. But *that* wouldn't keep the groundhogs out. For that you need to bend the fencing two feet outward at the bottom: They can dig under a regular fence, but evidently never figure out how to *back up* two feet and try again, lol!
sea, I get a mailbox full of Alternet, Common Dreams, and UCLA on a daily basis. I doubt I'm alone with that in this cohort. Deaniacs are some of the best informed citizens I've ever encountered. If I'm having a down day and want to be discouraged, I know where Tom Dispatch, and Democracy Now are on the web. It isn't *lack of information* -- it's where one chooses to focus their attention.
You, and Sitka, and Hujo always seemed to be under the impression that the rest of us were just stoopid, and ya'll were performing a service by informing us. Please rest assured that that is not the case.
Glad whatever glitch was keeping you from lurking is fixed -- I think I'd still get some virus protection on that Mac if I were you: you guys are becoming the nets new *target*. . . .
Jo, a *lot* of people have leg edema after any kind of major surgery. Often up to a year later. No one seems to know why, and most of the time it resolves. In my case, it was exacerbated by the starvation, and knocking my whole endocrine system outta whack.
In the search, came across a little item called T-3 anti-bodies. Which a lot of peeps with early Hashimoto's have, often before there are any symptoms. AND, there's a study out there that selenium can reduce the anti-bodies, and thus the edema, for 40 to 63%. When I asked my doc, she said absolutely (which is good 'cause I was already taking it, lol!). In fact, our soil around here is so depleted, they have to watch for a livestock disease called white leg or white muscle in newborn calves and lambs, which is caused by our selenium depleted soil, and thus food.
Four months post-op, most of my edema is gone. And the selenium *does* seem to be helping. If you take it, DO make sure not to take more than 200mcg. It's one of those like potassium where the window is pretty narrow. . . .
Oh Heavens, puddle, you all are bright and well-informed. I've never thought you stupid.
Some of us disagree about the direction of the country and who should be running it. :-)
So I'll shut up now and go water my flowers. Next week, I'll have a baby gardenia plant in the ground.
Thank you and Jo for your kind words. Perhaps *absinth* makes the heart grow fonder. :-)
Sea
Heh! My little sister is trying to make me *famous*, lol!
You are famous, Puddle. A beautiful story. An artist is someone who appreciates and creates something beautiful.
I'm reminded of what a wonderful writer said, "In Samoa, beauty is a verb."
I'd say you demonstrate that.
Gives ya HOPE
Lol! Wonderful saying! Have a friend who saw a VW bug with a license plate (Vermont, btw!) that said: VERB. . . .
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Yanno: I kind of hope they rot in hell for this. Too bad I don't believe in hell, lol!
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