China鈥檚 blind activist expertly used the power of the U.S. to magnify his cause. In this article from The Daily Beast, Senior Scholar Walter Reich describes how Obama should keep up the pressure: by taking a page from Ronald Reagan鈥檚 dealings with Russia.
鈥淕ive me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.鈥 That鈥檚 what Archimedes, the Greek mathematician, said 2,300 years ago. And that鈥檚 what Chen Guangcheng, the blind rights lawyer who escaped house arrest in rural China in a dash to the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, tried to do.
Chen鈥檚 lever was the nobility of his cause to protect Chinese women from forced abortions and sterilizations. That lever was made long by friends who used social media and a congressional hearing to highlight that cause.
The fulcrum he used was American power鈥攖he presence in China of the American secretaries of state and treasury, there to negotiate matters of security and trade.
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