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2010 Nobel Peace Prize a disgrace

Friday the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Liu Xiaobo, an incarcerated Chinese criminal.

The Nobel committee once again displayed its arrogance and prejudice against a country that has made the most remarkable economic and social progress in the past three decades.

The Nobel Prize has been generally perceived as a prestigious award in China, but many Chinese feel the peace prize is loaded with Western ideology.

Last century the prize was awarded several times to pro-West advocates in the former Soviet Union, including Mikhail Gorbachev, whose efforts directly led to the disintegration of the Soviet Union. The Western preference of the Nobel committee did not disappear with the end of the Cold War.

The committee continues to deny China's development by making paranoid choices.

In 1989, the Dalai Lama, a separatist, won the prize. Liu Xiaobo, the new winner, wants to copy Western political systems in China.

There are many different perspectives to view these two people, but neither of the two are among those who made constructive contributions to China's peace and growth in recent decades.

Other Chinese dissidents, such as Rebiya Kadeer and Hu Jia, were reportedly on the shortlist for the peace prize this year, which naturally generates animosity among many Chinese against the award.

They have reason to question whether the Nobel Peace Prize has been degraded to a political tool that serves an anti-China purpose. It seems that instead of peace and unity in China, the Nobel committee would like to see the country split by an ideological rift, or better yet, collapse like the Soviet Union.

Liu Xiaobo was sentenced to 11 years in jail by the Chinese government last year. Several countries tried to interfere into China's domestic affairs. What the Nobel committee did Friday was a continuation of that act.

The controversy in the West over Liu Xiaobo's sentence is not based on legal concerns. They are trying to impose Western values on China.

Obviously, the Nobel Peace Prize this year is meant to irritate China, but it will not succeed. On the contrary, the committee disgraced itself.

The award however makes it clearer that it is difficult for China to win applause from the West during China's development, and China needs to be more determined and confident in choosing its own development path, which is different from Western approach.

The Nobel committee made an unwise choice, but it and the political force it represents cannot dictate China's future growth.

China's success story speaks louder than the Nobel Peace Prize.

http://opinion.globaltimes.cn/editorial/2010-10/580091.html

I love the Global Times.

China blocks coverage of the award for the peace and democracy activist.

The world was abuzz today with news that jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo had won the Nobel Peace Prize. Except in China, that is, where the country's censors were working overtime to expunge his name from all media. It's not enough that state owned news station and papers won't report on Xiaobo's win, the country is also blacking out commercial stations like CNN during segments in which they report on the news. And the so-called Great Firewall is proving just how powerful it can be. Online news sites are being blocked and searches through Google and other providers are actively being censored if they mention "Nobel Prize" or "Liu Xiaobo." Twitter and other microblogging services can't escape either. Xiabobo's name, a trending topic on Twitter, was blocked in China as well, and not even text messages are safe from the firewall.

CNN reports that one Shanghai resident, @littley, tweeted, "My SIM card just got de-activated, turning my iPhone to an iPod touch after I texted my dad about Liu Xiaobo winning the Nobel Peace Prize." That message wouldn't be visible to other Chinese residents. For those who have learned to circumvent the Great Firewall, however, the news that the human rights activist and countryman had won was a welcome sign of hope.
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•source: CNN

Who is Liu Xiaobo?
Reuters October 9, 2010 6:15 AM


Jailed Chinese pro-democracy activist Liu Xiaobo, 54, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday, an announcement that infuriated China's rulers. Here are some facts about Liu:
LIU AS DISSIDENT: Liu was prominent in the 1989 pro-democracy protests centred on Tiananmen Square that were crushed by armed troops, and was jailed for 20 months.
In 1995, Liu orchestrated several daring petitions to parliament by groups of dissidents and intellectuals. He was held for more than seven months without formal charges.
On Sept. 30, 1996, Liu and veteran pro-democracy activist Wang Xizhe issued a statement urging the communist authorities to honour a promise in 1945 to give people religious freedom, freedom of the press and speech, and the freedom to form political parties and hold demonstrations.
They demanded that Communist Party chief Jiang Zemin be indicted for violating the constitution for saying the Chinese army was under the "absolute leadership" of the party instead of the state.
Within weeks, Liu was sentenced to three years in a labour camp.
MOST RECENT CONVICTION:
In December 2008, he helped to organize the Charter 08 petition, which called for sweeping political reforms. It was published on the 60th anniversary of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
He was detained almost immediately and held for six months under house arrest.

In December 2009, Liu was jailed for 11 years for "inciting subversion of state power" for his role in the petition and for online essays critical of the Communist Party.
In May, Liu was moved to Jinzhou Prison in Liaoning, his home province.
LIFE DETAILS
Liu Xiaobo was born on Dec. 28, 1955, in the city of Changchun in Jilin province.
After middle school, he was sent to the countryside to work in farms, then worked at a construction company.
In 1977, he was admitted to study Chinese literature at Jilin University, and created a poetry group with six fellow students: The Innocent Hearts (Chi Zi Xin).
In 1982, he began postgraduate literature studies at Beijing Normal University, starting an academic career that would lead to a professor's position.
In 1987, his first book, Criticism of the Choice: Dialogues with Li Zehou, on philosophy and aesthetics, became a non-fiction bestseller. It challenged the ideas of professor Li Zehou, a rising ideological star with great influence on young intellectuals.
Liu worked as a visiting scholar at the universities of Oslo and Hawaii and at Columbia University in New York.
He returned to China as student protests broke out in Beijing in 1989. His third book, The Fog of Metaphysics, a comprehensive review of Western philosophies, was published that year.
He served as president of the Independent Chinese PEN Centre from 2003-07 and holds a board seat.

Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Xiaobo/3648327/story.html#ixzz11rAxy83c

An article translated from the Belgian website www.chinasquare.be

Translated from Dutch to English:

Is the Nobel committee really worried about world peace?

Who is Liu Xiaobo, the new Nobel laureate for peace?

Liu is a dissident who consistently rejects Chinese socialism and fighting for a copy of the West political and economic system. He does so not only in word but in deed. Since 1989 he has been involved in several attempts in China to bring about regime change. He belongs to the wreath topdissidenten China.

After his doctorate in literature in 1988 in Beijing Liu leaves to Norway and on to the U.S., where he teaches at the university. There he works with the "Democratic League of China, a Taiwan at that time supported anti-communist movement. At the beginning of the protests in Beijing in 1989, he covered his lessons and he returns to China. Its purpose he states most clearly in May in an article published in Hong Kong, it would like four things replaced: "The autocracy of one party by the cooperation between various parties, public ownership and planned economy through private ownership and market economy, the single ideology by freedom of speech and the traditional Chinese culture by the modern (Western).

In the events of Tiananmen Liu plays an important role in the background. He carries out propaganda in intellectual circles, anti-communist organizations to help set up the protests and attempts to steer toward the overthrow of the regime. The Chinese government called him later to be 'the black hand behind the protests. According to the magazine Beijing Review, he two days before the events at Tiananmen declared: "We need to organize armed conflict among the people", but Western sources claim that he just encouraged the students to remain calm. Liu is arrested for counterrevolutionary propaganda and is considered an agitator. He's a half years in prison.

In 1996, Liu launched the "double-ten manifesto calling for the CPC's monopoly on power to break," double-ten "refers to October 10, national holiday of the 'Republic of China" on Taiwan. Liu gets three years reeducation through labor because of disturbing public order.

Liu then mixes regularly in debates on issues that stir public opinion (SARS, scandal forced labor for children, dealing with natural disasters). Systematic errors and problems he seizes to say that the cause of the wrong approach to the dominant position of the CPC. Each is the solution which he controls the top leaders resign and the party a step opzijzet. He claims that the CPC has achieved nothing good that she can not move forward.

Charter 08 in 2008 will be launched. The manifesto calls not only for "more democracy" but also by implication to the abolition of socialism. Several hundred personalities sign the manifest, although many are pulling back when they are interpellated by the government. The CPC opposes the initiative that they really are in practice the political democratization approach but with very different priorities and at a pace suited to the situation of the huge third world country China. Liu is seen as the mastermind of Charter 08 and is the only one he was sentenced to 11 years in prison for undermining state authority.

Though one might draw objections from the hard way the Chinese government tackles someone who consistently have different beliefs and thereby driving through a jammer for the chosen development strategy.

Today, however, one can not help but wonder what Liu Xiaobo has to do with world peace. How does opposing the socialist development of China closer to world peace? The Nobel Committee awarded the prize with a political choice that have little to do with peace.

The committee granted the price is in principle independent, but it reflects the political situation in the Norwegian parliament members arrows. China has also warned that this election around the relationship between the two countries could harm.



More information about dissidents in China since the 80s, see # http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_dissidents Detained_and_jailed_people. It shows that eight dissidents currently in prison. Liu Xiaobo is one with the longest sentence. Some twenty dissidents has since released twenty others fled and risk arrest upon return. About fifty persons may not return to China or have an unclear status

basic human right

its a basic human right for the right to have an opinion and to express it.
Liu Xiaobo been imprisoned for his own ideas/ views and expressing them in a peaceful manner.

Your going imprison someone who has different thoughts to you?
your neighbour ? your Friend? family member?

China come along way.........as have many nations and have been invaded the same but there is a fundamental right not to have one political party or thought forced on
people for eternity. Democracy and right of choice the only way.

The right for all people to vote and to choose a political party of choice.
its served the rest of world well. Thank god UK is a democracy.

India has a huge population but is the worlds biggest democracy, so it can work for large nations.
The right of choice can not be suppressed for ever.........

No offense dude, but any lecture on basic human rights from a descendant of the British Empire soldiers sounds silly and disgusting to me. We all know what your empire did to other people, and in China's case, at least the opium war which not only robbed its money but also poisoned its people. You cannot take a country's silver by poisoning its people, and still wonder innocently why it is so undeveloped and backward. Damn it, if it were not for the century-long invasion, how could communism/socialism, an ideology so different from traditional Chinese philosophy, possibly set foot in China?

Besides, Liu is on CIA's payroll--well, maybe not exactly, since NED used to a CIA branch, but now an 'independent' fund promoting 'democracy', but come on, who will be so naive not to think it is a US government thing? Very often he is not promoting his own ideas, for he has an obvious foreign agenda. His most famous comments 'China needs 300 years of colonization to develop, and I doubt 300 years will be enough' and ‘It is a pity that I cannot speak and write in fluent English, otherwise I would have nothing to do with China’, come on, will the people even in the west be able to imagine this from someone promoting human rights in China?? No wonder he is so popular and particularly favored by CIA. I am not saying jailing him is appropriate or not, I am just stating that he is not that innocent like the west has been trying to depict him. The western media is very kind to him, for they choose not to translate his blatant and silly words. Selective translation is somehow censoring too, because of the language barrier, it is easy for people to get a one-sided story. Alright, enough of Mr. Liu, since among the Chinese democracy promoters, he's certainly not my favorite. the only possibly acceptable one to me is Mr. Wang Xizhe, if you have any idea who this guy is.

I actually hate a lot of communist things like censoring, corrupt officials, force demolition and so on. I blame the communists on not controlling the real estate bubble, poisoned food and decayed moral and so on. I am certainly very interested in promoting human rights, although this concept has somehow become equivalent to a western conspiracy--because there has been so much improvement in human rights in many areas in China, yet the west chose to ignore the improvement and progress. It is the west that drives many Chinese people away from its own agenda.

Human rights are often privileges. Yes they should have been born rights but in reality they are not. Like everyone has a right not to be destroyed by opium, and every country has the right not to accept opium, was the right granted? No, we had to fight the British, and still we failed to get that right because we lost the war. It is easy for someone to promote it, but in reality what the people get is an illusion. But that is not the reason not to promote them. I enjoyed talking to human rights activists in the states, such as doctors serving inmates in correctional facilities and asking for intervention to reduce AIDS among inmates, activists working to stop human trafficking into prostitution, activists fighting for a cleaner environment, and so on so forth. They are known for their great efforts. But in China human rights promotion is emphasized on different matters. Put the governmental efforts aside, there are still many more organizations not getting enough media coverage yet they have done a lot. Even in the overseas Chinese communities, there are various organizations promoting child care (especially disabled kid), education and emergency/disaster help in China. I used to work as a volunteer in a remote mountainous area to teach the little kids, and financed one girl to get through junior high school. There are many organizations like the one I was involved in China. I haven’t got a chance to join any overseas charity organizations, but I was extremely excited to see the facebook/causes charity fundraising event and later the facebook/Chase fundraising for Chinese organizations(to clarify, the events were in general and not only for Chinese organizations, but I was only interested in the overseas Chinese organizations), you’d be surprised to see how many overseas Chinese are willing to help, and the atmosphere was so great. You can even see reports of the overseas Chinese participation of these events in China. Those are the people who have done the most, yet the western political organizations would not care or favor them, these organizations are not recognized or reported because they don’t serve the agenda, let alone any reward. They are actually doing something good for China, so they are not acceptable. Simple as that.

I don’t wanna comment more on India as that will attract trolls, but if you know what the majority of Chinese’s opinion, I am afraid you won’t use this example.

jerseyboi said:

basic human right

its a basic human right for the right to have an opinion and to express it.
Liu Xiaobo been imprisoned for his own ideas/ views and expressing them in a peaceful manner.

Your going imprison someone who has different thoughts to you?
your neighbour ? your Friend? family member?

China come along way.........as have many nations and have been invaded the same but there is a fundamental right not to have one political party or thought forced on
people for eternity. Democracy and right of choice the only way.

The right for all people to vote and to choose a political party of choice.
its served the rest of world well. Thank god UK is a democracy.

India has a huge population but is the worlds biggest democracy, so it can work for large nations.
The right of choice can not be suppressed for ever.........

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