I for one am thrilled that the Nobel committee corrected for its mistake of last year by honoring a truly deserving person and in doing so rubbed it in the face of Red China. That can’t be bad at all!
No doubt ! I am just sick of the way the ChiComms do things.
I don’t think anybody should be imprisoned for free speech or human rights, but this guy is hardly deserving of the Nobel Peace prize imho.
I’m not entirely sure when he switched to human rights activism as his main cause. But a cursory search shows that this guy spent a good decade writing about how Western and Japanese colonialism is good for China. He went as far as to say that China should be colonized by the west for 300 years for it’s own good.
I do not see how people from any non-western or developing country can view this in a positive light. And then there is the fact that he was clandestinely paid by the United States...
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2010/10/liu-xiaobo-and-the-300-years-problem/64916/
As usual the Nobel Peace Prize committee can be counted on to nominate the undeserving.