Beijing (CNN) -- The diplomatic drama over Chen Guangcheng showed promising signs of a resolution Friday, with China indicating the activist could apply to travel to the United States and New York University announcing it has invited him to be a visiting scholar. China was incensed after Chen, who broke out of house arrest, sought refuge at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. He left the embassy after six days and went to a hospital, where he was reunited with his wife and their two children. Since then, he has made several pleas to be allowed to leave China, including a call to a U.S. congressional hearing.
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New York University wants Chinese activist to work with its law programs
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China says Chen can apply to study abroad "like other Chinese citizens"
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U.S. Embassy staff had a chance to meet with Chen, Secretary Clinton says
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Chen says he wants to go to the United States to "recuperate"
Chen had said early Friday that U.S. @placeholder officials had told him Chinese security personnel stopped U.S. diplomats from entering his hospital room Thursday.
On Friday, Chen mollified his tone compared with the comments he made a day earlier, when he said he was "very disappointed" in the @placeholder government because he felt American officials had lobbied for him to leave the embassy and abandoned him at the hospital.