In the year 2000, Chen Hao was invited to Washington think tank the Brookings Institution as a visiting scholar, and was away from his daughters for ten months. Chen describes this as "the most vulnerable time in my life."
二○○○年，陳浩受邀到華府智庫布魯京斯研究院擔任訪問學人，與女兒分開的十個月，陳浩形容為：「這一生中最軟弱的時刻！」