UPDATED 3:43 AM EST, January 29, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — Blind dissident Chen Guangcheng tilts his head backward and chuckles. Nine months after he escaped the purgatory of house arrest in China for the more sedate life of a New York University law student, he ruminates on the future of the authoritarian system he escaped and comes to a defiant conclusion: It's doomed.
"It's an inevitability of history, whether the party likes it or not," Chen said. "Once the people are waking up, change is coming for sure."
