"Shortly before the meeting the Chinese government sent a very nasty threat to the White House saying that if these guys returned to China their safety could not be guaranteed. In other words, they were going to be arrested. So before President Bush met with them he sent a back channel message to the Chinese government saying, “I President Bush am personally invested in the welfare of these three dissidents and if anything happens to them then this would cause a severe disruption in US-China relations.” We then followed up by having our embassy in Beijing send diplomats to meet the dissidents at the airport in Beijing when they returned, escort them to their apartments and keep in very regular touch with them. And for the next year and a half during the duration of the president’s administration they were left alone." [Gateway Pundit]
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