The U. S. and German doctors who examined cancer-stricken Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo say he’s strong enough to leave China, contradicting local assessments of the long-imprisoned dissident’s health.
BEIJING—The U. S. and German doctors who examined cancer-stricken Nobel Peace Prize laureateLiu Xiaobo say he’s strong enough to leave China, contradicting Chinese authorities’ assessment of the long-imprisoned dissident’s health.
With Beijing under pressure to let Mr. Liu travel abroad for treatment of late-stage liver cancer, hospital authorities announced last week that foreign specialists would be brought in. The physicians, Joseph Herman of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Markus Büchler of the…
