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Re: China launches its own peace prize
And then request that Assange be released from prison to accept it....
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[SIZE=+1]16 countries pull out of Peace Prize award ceremony[/SIZE]
China National News
Saturday 11th December, 2010
China National News
Saturday 11th December, 2010
China has lashed out at the Nobel Peace Prize committee which went ahead Friday with a ceremony awarding the prestigious award to a jailed dissident cast in the West as a hero of freedom and in China as a dangerous criminal.
Liu Xiaobo won the award in 2010 for his role in trying to promote democracy and freedom in China. He penned a letter calling on the government to move toward democratic governance and got 300 people to sign it, for which he was sentenced to 11 years in prison.
The award has been used to acknowledge political activists in the past such as South Africa’s Nelson Mandela and Burma’s Aung Sang Suu Ki, but China, the second most powerful economy in the world, has reacted with outrage at the Nobel committee.
“We resolutely oppose any country or any person using the Nobel Peace Prize to interfere with China’s internal affairs or infringe upon China's legal sovereignty,” said a statement by the Foreign Ministry in Beijing, adding that the awarding of the Peace Prize Friday was an anti-China “political farce”.
At the awards ceremony, Norwegian actress Liv Ullmann read out part of statement made by Mr Liu in court.
“I, filled with optimism, look forward to the advent of a future, free China... For there is no force that can put an end to the human quest for freedom, and China will in the end become a nation ruled by law, where human rights reign supreme.”
In 1964 Nelson Mandela made a similar statement at his treason trial.
“I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”
“We can say (Mr) Liu reminds us of Nelson Mandela,” said Thorbjorn Jagland, the comittee’s chairman, comparing China’s anger to that of Apartheid South Africa when another activist, Arch Bishop Desmond Tutu, was awarded the Peace Prize.
Jagland attempted to balance his criticism of China, praising the country for its impressive economic growth and development. He pointed out the government’s “extraordinary achievement” in lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, but warned that as a world power, it must learn to accept criticism.
He then proceeded to place the award on an empty chair representing Liu Xiaobo. There was no one at the award ceremony to accept the prize on his behalf, the UN has reported 120 cases of house arrest and travel restrictions by the Chinese government while at least 20 activists sympathetic to Liu have been detained.
In addition, the English and Chinese versions of the BBC and other major news channels have been blocked while TV coverage of the event was also banned from being broadcast within the country.
Following alleged pressure from the Chinese government, 16 countries refused to attend the ceremony including Saudi Arabia, Russia, Venezuela, Tunisia, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Cuba, Morocco, Sudan, Algeria, Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka. These were countries either sympathetic to China’s opposition to the West’s narrow view of Liu’s crimes or those countries that rely on Chinese aid and investment.
The murky nature of perspective was highlighted by one commenter on Big News Network's forums asking what political outrage would ensue if a contraversial figure such as Julian Assange were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Re: Mercedes-Benz and China .
china, do you have comprehension problems? Or perhaps are you just slightly blind?
It it not enough to feed your insatiable ego that there is a thread already, called "Threads about china by china"?
Why did you start this thread totally out of place?
china, do you have comprehension problems? Or perhaps are you just slightly blind?
It it not enough to feed your insatiable ego that there is a thread already, called "Threads about china by china"?
Why did you start this thread totally out of place?
Re: Mercedes-Benz and China .
Is it not enough to feed your insatiable ego that you post drivel about politics every day, you have to infect every other thread with your nasty hateful posts?
Is it not enough to feed your insatiable ego that you post drivel about politics every day, you have to infect every other thread with your nasty hateful posts?
Re: Mercedes-Benz and China .
YukonJack, apparently, did not notice the question mark in my post.
Figures!
YukonJack, apparently, did not notice the question mark in my post.
Figures!
Re: Mercedes-Benz and China .
I guess question marks absolve you of any wrong doing.
YukonJack, aka coolconservative, is a complete asshat?
I guess question marks absolve you of any wrong doing.
YukonJack, aka coolconservative, is a complete asshat?
Re: Mercedes-Benz and China .
TenPenny, if you had been astute enough to notice the question mark in my post #5, you would not have posted your nonsense in post #8.
However, I feel honoured that you (mis)quoted me there and then again in your post #10.
Have you nothing ORIGINAL to say?
Figures!!
TenPenny, if you had been astute enough to notice the question mark in my post #5, you would not have posted your nonsense in post #8.
However, I feel honoured that you (mis)quoted me there and then again in your post #10.
Have you nothing ORIGINAL to say?
Figures!!
Re: Mercedes-Benz and China .
YukonJack, I think if you were intelligent enough to read my post, you would have not bothered replying.
The only quoting of you that I did was by using the 'quote' feature, and therefore any quote is exactly what your post said at the time I quoted it.
Figures!!!
YukonJack, I think if you were intelligent enough to read my post, you would have not bothered replying.
The only quoting of you that I did was by using the 'quote' feature, and therefore any quote is exactly what your post said at the time I quoted it.
Figures!!!
Re: Mercedes-Benz and China .
Antagonism? (Notice the question mark!!)
Methinks perhaps you could do with reading the posts in chronological order!!! Do you not agree??
(Notice the question marks?!!!)
Antagonism? (Notice the question mark!!)
Methinks perhaps you could do with reading the posts in chronological order!!! Do you not agree??
(Notice the question marks?!!!)