It seems the US and China have colluded to fool Chen Guangcheng into leaving the US embassy. On the day that Clinton lands in Beijing to suck up to one of the most brutal regimes in the world, China showed it's disdain for freedom and threatened his family to make him comply with their wishes, and the US were not at the hospital he was taken to (by agreement, not because he's ill) when they promised they would be. The whole sorry tale is here: Chen betrayed

This is the new age: trade over freedom, profit over people. We can stop paying lip service to being lovers of liberty and free speech and admit we're all cogs in the new global capitalist machine, as those in charge stitch us all up to make a fast buck.