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China warns Western envoys off Nobel ceremony: diplomats
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| 11/05/10
| Pierre-Henry Deshayes
Posted on 11/06/2010 7:16:22 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
China warns Western envoys off Nobel ceremony: diplomats
by Pierre-Henry Deshayes
Fri Nov 5, 12:17 pm ET
OSLO (AFP) – China has warned other countries against attending the award ceremony in Oslo for Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo, diplomats said Friday, in the latest sign of Beijing's irritation at the Norwegian Nobel Committee's pick this year.
Diplomats from several countries said China's embassy in Oslo had sent letters to Western missions more or less implicitly cautioning them not to attend the prize ceremony on December 10 in the Norwegian capital.
The decision to award the prize to Liu, a veteran Chinese dissident currently serving an 11-year prison sentence for subversion against the state, has enraged the Communist government in Beijing.
In Beijing, Vice Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai said governments would have to "take responsibility for the consequences" if they showed support for Liu, according to Dow Jones Newswires.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; liuxiaobo; nobelprize
To: TigerLikesRooster; Tainan; hedgetrimmer; Unam Sanctam; taxesareforever; Avenger; prion; Iris7; ...
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posted on
11/06/2010 7:17:25 AM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: TigerLikesRooster
China has warned other countries against attending the award ceremony in Oslo for Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo, diplomats said Friday, in the latest sign of Beijing's irritation at the Norwegian Nobel Committee's pick this year. Join the club. I was pretty irritated at the Nobel Committee's pick last year.
To: TigerLikesRooster
What will they do about it, spike our food with melatonin. Oh wait
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posted on
11/06/2010 7:20:47 AM PDT
by
Flavius
To: Flavius
melamine, not melatonin, but i got your drift.
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posted on
11/06/2010 7:23:33 AM PDT
by
nuconvert
( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
To: TigerLikesRooster
How about China says they will execute Xiaobo if he receives the Nobel prize so we will know what they are really all about... Maybe that isn't subtle enough for them.
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posted on
11/06/2010 7:34:44 AM PDT
by
Truth29
To: nuconvert
Heh I think their melatonin is melamine
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posted on
11/06/2010 7:37:28 AM PDT
by
Flavius
To: Truth29
If China keeps at it, the next Peace Prize could go to an exiled Uighur activist. If that happens, China may have to launch DF-31 to Oslo.:-)
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posted on
11/06/2010 7:38:09 AM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Well then they might as well give The Nobel to Omullah again for all he has done for world pieces. /s/
To: Flavius
What will they do about it, spike our food with melatonin. Oh wait Half of America is already asleep.
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posted on
11/06/2010 8:18:07 AM PDT
by
The Comedian
(I really missed you. Next time, I'll adjust for windage.)
To: The Comedian; Flavius
ZZZzzzzzzzinnnnng! Well played.
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posted on
11/06/2010 4:20:46 PM PDT
by
Tenniel2
(Obamacare in a nutshell: Take everyone's money. Then kill them.)
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