Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng throws Hillary under the bus?

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Foreign Policy:

In Hard Choices, Clinton’s June 2014 memoir of her time at the State Department, she devotes an entire chapter to her involvement in the Chen affair. Chen was “unpredictable and quixotic,” Clinton writes, but also “as formidable a negotiator as the Chinese leaders outside.”

Chen, however, barely mentions Clinton in his book. In detailing the pressure American officials put on him to reach a deal quickly, it’s Campbell who comes off especially poorly. He warns Chen, according to the book, that “if you don’t leave the embassy, the Chinese government will accuse you of treason.”

The Telegraph gives a more direct account of Chen's account of the US State Department negotiations:

Mr Chen, while expressly grateful for being given refuge first at the embassy and later in the US, directly contradicted Mrs Clinton in his 322-page memoir The Barefoot Lawyer, a copy of which has been seen by The Telegraph.

Far from having his wishes respected, Mr Chen described how he was relentlessly “pressured to leave” the embassy for a Beijing hospital and forced to accept an “absurdly inadequate” deal on pain of the Chinese government accusing him of treason.

“What troubled me most at the time was this: when negotiating with a government run by hooligans, the country that most consistently advocated for democracy, freedom, and universal human rights had simply given in,” he wrote.