Posted on 10/15/2010 9:02:11 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Nobel Peace Prize award 'encouraging crime', China claims
Awarding the Nobel Peace prize to Liu Xiaobo is tantamount to encouraging crime, according to China.
By Peter Foster, Beijing
Published: 10:42AM BST 14 Oct 2010
“Liu Xiaobo is a convicted criminal. Awarding the Nobel Prize to him is equivalent to encouraging crime,” said Ma Zhaoxu, a foreign ministry spokesman, in the latest denunciation of the decision to honour the author of the Charter 08 petition calling for greater freedom in China.
His remarks came after Naoto Kan, the Japanese prime minister, joined the US, Germany and several other European nations in criticising the imprisonment of Liu Xiaobo and calling for greater freedom in China.
Mr Kan called on China to respect universal human rights, adding that it would be “desirable” to release the 54-year-old former literature professor who was jailed for 11 years last December on charges of “inciting subversion of state power”.
“From the viewpoint that universal human rights should be protected across national borders, it is desirable” that Liu be released, Mr Kan told the Japanese parliament, “I think it is important that human rights and fundamental freedoms, which are universal values, should also be guaranteed in China.” China’s ruling Communist Party fundamentally disagrees, however, arguing that the suppression of the freedoms of speech and association are essential to maintaining social stability in China and dismissing foreign attempts, as it sees it, to interfere in its internal affairs.
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I wonder what awarding Obama and Al Gore the Nobel Peace Prize encourages...
That's a fact. Obama got one and look at the crimes he's responsible for.
And the Globalist Free Traders will continue to give a pass to their allies....the Communist Chinese.
Chinese regime is eminently qualified for Nobel Peace Prize based on these 'merits.' Maybe they will get it next year, when Nobel Committee goes crazy again.:-)
Why do we keep doing things to make China mad??
China is our friend. Right? I know this because I was told that if we have free trade with China it would make China a more democratic country.
And it did....... right?
So don’t upset China, because that’s bad. They might stop buying our stuff.
oops... I forgot.... sorry......China doesn’t buy our stuff anyway...... even when it’s not mad.
Well....... nevermind.
In WWII, we made fun of the Germans and we made fun of the Japs. They were already mad at us, so it didn't matter.
During the Cold War, when both the US and the Soviet Union were ready to rain down nuclear fire on each other, no one really held back from saying what they wanted to say about the other country.
At some point, things changed.
Now, we are told not to saying anything against Islam -- they might get mad!
And don't say anything against China -- they might get mad!
We've become idiots.
"The problem with the liberal anti-war position is that they have no actual policy ideas of their own. They say, 'If we attack enraged fanatics who seek our destruction, they'll just get mad and seek our destruction'".
These people whine like a baby.
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