China to Award Own Peace Prize Ahead Of Nobel Award

[Elmore Furth]

Source: Reuters

China will award its answer to the Nobel Peace Prize a day before it is bestowed upon jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, giving the "Confucius Peace Prize" to a former Taiwan vice-president.

China was furious after Liu won the Nobel Peace Prize in October, saying it was an "obscenity" that it was given to a man it considers a subversive and a criminal.

The newly created Confucius prize, named after the ancient Chinese philosopher the Communist Party has recently co-opted as its own, was suggested in an opinion piece in the popular tabloid the Global Times three weeks ago.

The award ceremony will take place in Beijing on Thursday, the day before Liu is formally awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo. Neither he nor his wife have been allowed by the Chinese government to go to Oslo. Liu's wife has been put under house arrest.



Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2010/12/08/world/international-uk-china-nobel-confucius.html?ref=world

[cowcommander]

1. Wow, they really do copy everything...

[Heywood J]

2. In other news,

filthy rich Chinese Communist party apparatchiks desperately clutch at straws, plaintively bleating that they're oppressed and downtrodden while the whole world is against them. Same-old, same-old.

[saigon68]

3. The U.S. Corporatists WET DREAM

A Capitalist Fascist Dictatorship with low wages for the serfs and unlimited wealth for the Top 1%

[Nihil]

4. Hey, they could follow the Swedish precedent and award it to Kim Il Jung! (n/t)

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[kgnu_fan]

5. China is starting to look like AmeriKKKa, copy cat!