BEIJING — A Chinese activist who triggered a diplomatic dispute between China and the United States said Monday he is confident that Beijing will hold up its end of a tentative deal to let him study overseas.

Chen Guangcheng is a blind, self-taught legal activist who made a daring escape from brutal house arrest in his rural town into U.S. diplomatic custody in Beijing more than a week ago, setting off a diplomatic standoff. Under still-evolving arrangements announced Friday by Washington and Beijing, Chen may be able to leave to study in the United States.

“Since the Chinese government has promised to safeguard my constitutionally provided rights and freedom and safety, I feel that they will fulfill their commitments, because it is after all an agreement between two countries,” Chen said.

Chen sounded more optimistic than on Friday morning before details of the deal were announced. He is in a Beijing hospital, where he was taken to receive medical care and was joined by his wife and two children. Chen suffered three broken bones in his foot when he was escaping from his rural village.

He said he has asked hospital staff to help him with the paperwork for him and his family to obtain travel documents.

“I entrusted the hospital with telling the relevant people or department that I have asked them to handle it on my behalf, because I am lying on the bed and I can’t move and my friends can’t come and see me, so what can I do? I can only ask them,” he said.