Posted on 12/14/2010 2:19:25 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
China's Nobel Fury Backlash
Parameswaran Ponnudurai
2010-12-11
Beijing's aggressive blitz to discredit the Nobel Peace Prize and its recipient may boomerang, analysts say.
A portrait of Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo is projected on the wall of a hotel during a torch parade in Oslo, Dec. 10, 2010.
China may have shot itself in the foot by its radical clampdown at home and aggressive diplomacy abroad over the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to jailed pro-democracy dissident Liu Xiaobo.
By barring Liu and his wife from collecting the award, coming down hard on his supporters, and muzzling debate on the subject, Beijing's actions have unwittingly and ironically highlighted the human rights plight at home.
And by waging an unprecedented campaign to force other nations into boycotting the award ceremony in Oslo on Friday, China has earned the dubious honor of being an international bully.
"The government's sheer vitriol and bullying of other nations not to attend the Oslo award ceremony highlights a white-knuckled clinging to power," said Mark Lagon, an expert at the Council on Foreign Relations, a think tank in Washington.
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Has Thomas Friedman and his autocrat loving comrades @ the NYSlimes weighed in on the Red Chinese gov’s autocratic efficiency in bogarting the idiot Noble Peezers?
In my book, he is just as despicable as Noam Chomsky.
“...Beijing’s aggressive blitz to discredit the Nobel Peace Prize ...”
Good grief - they gave it to the Dung-Beetle-in-Chief.
It’s already way below discredited.
“Beijing’s aggressive blitz to discredit the Nobel Peace Prize”..............
Too late, the committee did that last year when they gave it to you know who.
The stature of the Nobel prize was destroyed when it was given to Obama.
This year the prize went to an empty chair, last year it went to an empty suit.
Before that, it went to a ‘hot air.’:-)
You will probably find this interesting: HFR (China’s Confucius Peace Prize and Hitler’s Nazi Peace Prize as History Repeats)
Like Nazi Germany, China also responded by creating its own peace prize.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2641894/posts
One would think that it would make for interesting media background and fodder for talk radio here. Nobody in media seems to know about it. Yet it is an indisputable fact.
Glad the world started to remember or realize Chinese Communist government is even more dangerous than Nazi, any mafia, or any other dictatorship in human history because it’s the most deceiving and manipulative.
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