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Chen says he is in great danger in China

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As US officials search for a solution, blind Chinese activist said he was in great danger in China.

Chen Guangcheng urged the Chinese government to respect commitments it made about his safety when he left the US embassy.I am in great danger... I hope the government will respect the commitments to guarantee my rights agreed to between China and the United States, he told AFP in a telephone interview.Meanwhile, U.S. officials searched for a solution Friday after a blind activist they had sheltered reversed course and asked to leave China with his family, deepening a diplomatic standoff while U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is in Beijing.The demand by Chen Guangcheng to leave China abandons an arduously negotiated agreement, and reaching a new one will be even more challenging, if not impossible, because he left the protection of the U.S. Embassy on Wednesday. He is now in a Beijing hospital, ringed by Chinese police.U.S. officials said they would speak with Chen and his wife again Friday, then approach the Chinese with possible options. They did not say what those options could be, or if they expected to visit Chen in person. They were unable to do so Thursday, when they spoke to him by telephone.Clinton, in Beijing for previously set annual talks on global political and economic hotspots, was expected to have raised Chens case when she met President Hu Jintao on Friday, although neither mentioned Chen in remarks at the start of the meeting when media were present.
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