Posted on 12/09/2010 3:26:33 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
China’s Answer to Nobel Mystifies Its Winner
By EDWARD WONG
BEIJING — The newly created award, named after the venerated Chinese sage whose teachings have been recited for thousands of years, was meant to rival the Nobel Peace Prize, and to lend an air of respectability and gravitas to China’s rise on the world stage.
But those lofty goals appeared lost on the Taiwanese politician honored as its first winner. In fact, on Wednesday, the politician, Lien Chan, had yet to hear officially that he had won. Or that he was to appear at the ceremony in Beijing on Thursday to claim $15,000 in award money. Or that there was even such a thing as a Confucius Peace Prize.
“Are you asking about the peace prize thing?” Mr. Lien’s office director said in exasperation when reached by phone. “Regarding this event, our answer is ‘no comment,’ because we know nothing about it. Nobody has ever contacted us on this issue, and we only have secondhand information from journalists.”
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This reminds me of one of those bad Nigerian 419 scam.
Hope the winner doesn’t have to pay any “fees” to get to his money.
This reminds me of one of those bad Nigerian 419 scams.
Hope the winner doesn’t have to pay any “fees” to get to his money.
It was a top secret prize.
With the waning of Communism, all the CCP has left is Chinese nationalism and Chinese culture to draw on for support.
Hmm. That’s like saying all the Himalaya range has left is its rocks.
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