Now many Chinese are thinking: Why do the Chinese always choose to seek protection from the US diplomatic unit? Chen Guangcheng is rumored to have entered the US Embassy in Beijing. Prior to this, Chen had succeeded in escaping from his hometown while being controlled by the Political and Legal Affairs Committee (PLAC) of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Pro-democracy activists in China and overseas analyzed that Chen's path was very similar to Fang Lizhi's in 1989. Chen's revealing of PLAC's persecution against the Chinese may help Hu and Wen to remove Zhou Yongkang. And that will advance China's political situation, activists say. They called for the US government to protect Chen Guangcheng, to show its image of an international police upholding justice. In his video talk to the CCP premier Wen Jiabao, Chen Guangcheng exposed plenty of persecution by PLAC of him and his family members. This makes people associate Chen's flight with Fang Lizhi's fleeing to the US Embassy in 1989. Fang was then a leader of China's pro-democracy movement. Liu Yinquan (Chair of China Social Democratic Party): "At that time, Mr. Fang Lizhi fled to the US consulate in order to escape the CCP's persecution. So did Mr. Chen Guangcheng. And the US Embassy gave both of them protection. Mr. Fang finally came to the US, and I believe Mr. Chen will. I also believe that the US government will give him full protection, so the result will be the same for him, I think." Liu, former history professor ...