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BEIJING – Imprisoned Chinese democracy campaigner Liu Xiaobo on Friday won the Nobel Peace Prize — an award that immediately inspired China's political dissidents and drew furious condemnation from the authoritarian government.
Chinese state media blacked out the news and Chinese government censors blocked Nobel Prize reports, which highlighted Liu's calls for peaceful political change, from Internet websites. China declared the decision would harm its relations with Norway — and the Nordic country responded that it was a petty thing for a world power to do.
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I kind of felt like this was going to happen after China made its protest against this. There is nothing the Nobel committee likes less than to be threatened by a bully, which is exactly what China is... I wonder what they are going to do to Norway, withhold exports of plastic junk?!?!? lol...
Seriously, I heard this listening to the news on the car radio on the way home and I clapped my hands with excitement (I know, not recommended on the Freeway at 95 km/hr) but I really was happy with this choice... much better than last year's no doubt.
China has gotten a lot of bad press lately and it is about time. It's childish reaction to this, the row it created with Japan and the increasingly tense trade rows with the EU and the US, among other things, are starting to cause more and more people to wake up to the true nature that is China's government.
ludahai said:Statements like this only prove that you are as nutty as the Nobel Committee. Tibet isn't part of China, and even if the Dalai Lama were preparing for a forceful coup against the Chinese occupiers (which I have never seen any credible evidence that he is) he would only be working against an illegal occupation.
Another purely political gesture by this institution. I find it hilarious that Norway is asserting the Norwegian Nobel Committee that awards this prize is independent of the government when it is appointed in its entirety by parliament. Past winners of the Peace Prize demonstrate clearly that it is a political institution that incorporates its political bias into decisions.
Naturally they would not think to award a critic of the Chinese government who actually exposes real issues, achieves real progress, and is at the same time not in prison. I mean, that would just ruin the whole point.
However, I agree with this award and I am appalled at China's immature reaction to it.
I think their reaction is quite sensible. Like I said the committee responsible for giving out this prize is appointed entirely by Norway's parliament. You will also note the only time they ever seem to consider a critic of the Chinese government is when that critic is in prison. Clearly it is less about actually awarding someone for promoting reform or progress in China and all about casting aspersions on the Chinese government.
There were many nominees mentioned who are more deserving of such a prize.
Even disagreeing with the award, I'm not sure how someone can justify media censorship as a sensible response.
Which Chinese dissident do you feel would be more deserving anyway?
I am talking about their response towards Norway and the Nobel committee.
There are not any specific ones I can name off the top of my head, but there are ones I know about whose names I can't recall that are more deserving. Well, Hu Jia was at least more deserving than him, though I think there are still better choices. Do you not find it odd that they have never given a Peace Prize to someone in prison before, but then suddenly they decide to give this guy one?
China is correct in interpreting it as a slight against them, because ultimately it seems clear the point is not to actually honor anything the guy did, but simply make a negative statement about China.
But Hu Jia is in prison too. He got a peace award from the European parliament a couple years ago and the Chinese government reacted in a similar manner.
Lutuli was imprisoned in 1960, so I'm not sure why you say no previous Nobel winners were in jail.
I fail to see how Norway would benefit from pissing off China, I doubt the government had a direct hand in the selection.
I think their reaction is quite sensible. Like I said the committee responsible for giving out this prize is appointed entirely by Norway's parliament. You will also note the only time they ever seem to consider a critic of the Chinese government is when that critic is in prison. Clearly it is less about actually awarding someone for promoting reform or progress in China and all about casting aspersions on the Chinese government.
There were many nominees mentioned who are more deserving of such a prize.
I am talking about their response towards Norway and the Nobel committee.
Do you not find it odd that they have never given a Peace Prize to someone in prison before, but then suddenly they decide to give this guy one?
Aung San Suu Kyi was under house arrest when she won the award in 1991. .
Once again, you come out and support the thugs in Beijing. Their reaction is quite sensible?!?!? His wife is now under de facto house arrest and they are using this as an excuse to further harass dissidents in the country who do little more than call for the exercise of rights that are written in the PRC constitution, not to mention stepped up harassment of human rights lawyers in the country.
Makes sense?!?!? Yeah, only to those who support totalitarian thugs.
Please tell me you are kidding. China always threatens and blusters when anyone does something they don't like. So, the Nobel committee awards someone who has received international recognition for his work against the tyrants in Beijing. Yeah, it is an understandable response -- the response of tyrants. It is sad that some like yourself have been so duped into supporting those tyrants that you consistantly defend them on this board.
He has been an advocate for peaceful change in China. The human rights situation in the country is atrocious. Liu and those like him deserve to be recognized for the work they are doing to bring change to one of the world's worst regimes.
Relevance? Once again, you prove you have no capacity for debate...
They were nutty until they gave it to somebody you approved of. Once again, proving your ridiculous bias against anything Chinese.
I think this peace prize is more well deserved than when they gave it to Obama. That was pretty awful.
Liu's wife is under house arrest now and they aren't letting her talk to the media who have been flocking to her place in droves. I personally love whenever the topic of China's humanitarian crisis comes into the international limelight. It's quite disgusting. I visited Tibet and Xinjiang when I was last in China. The stuff I saw there was just... unspeakable. I will always have a love for Chinese culture and its ancient wisdom, but I will never stop hating their government. The fact that they have market support from the West shows that we are complete sell outs and that business values matter much more than our desire to spread universal human rights.
China needs a revolution badly and I hope I am alive to see it happen. Then again, I'm sure any revolution there will prompt the U.S. to help stop it. Gotta protect business after all.
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