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发帖数: 27535 | 1 By TINI TRAN, Associated Press Tini Tran, Associated Press – 18 mins ago
BEIJING – Only three weeks after the idea was first publicly floated, China
has cobbled together its own peace prize and plans to award it Thursday —
the day before the Nobel Committee honors an imprisoned Chinese dissident in
a move that has enraged Beijing.
Since Liu Xiaobo's selection, China has vilified the 54-year-old democracy
advocate, called the choice an effort by the West to contain its rise,
disparaged his supporters as "clowns," and launched a campaign to persuade
countries not to attend Friday's ceremony in Oslo. The government is also
preventing Liu — who is serving an 11-year sentence for co-authoring a bold
appeal for political reforms in the Communist country — and his family
members from attending.
Amid the flurry of action came a commentary published on Nov. 17 in a
Communist Party-approved tabloid that suggested China create its own award
— the "Confucius Peace Prize" — to counter the choice of Liu.
Three weeks later, The Associated Press has learned, China is doing just
that.
Named after the famed philosopher, the new prize was created to "interpret
the viewpoints of peace of (the) Chinese (people)," the awards committee
said in a statement it released to the AP on Tuesday.
Awards committee chairman Tan Changliu said his group was not an official
government body, but acknowledged that it worked closely with the Ministry
of Culture. He declined to give specifics about the committee, when it was
created and how the five judges were chosen, saying it would be disclosed
later.
The first honoree is Lien Chan, Taiwan's former vice president and the
honorary chairman of its Nationalist Party, for having "built a bridge of
peace between the mainland and Taiwan." A staffer in his Taipei office said
she could not comment Tuesday because she knew nothing about the prize.
Chan was chosen from among eight nominees — some of whom are regularly
mentioned for, or have already won, that other peace prize: billionaire Bill
Gates, former South African President Nelson Mandela, former U.S. President
Jimmy Carter, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and the Panchen Lama, the
second-highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism.
While China regularly disparages the Dalai Lama, the religion's spiritual
leader, the current Panchen Lama is a 20-year-old who was hand-picked by
Beijing. The original boy named by the Dalai Lama has disappeared.
"We should not compete, we should not confront the Nobel Prize, but we
should try to set up another standard," said Liu Zhiqin, the Beijing
businessman who suggested the prize in The Global Times. "The Nobel prize is
not a holy thing that we cannot doubt or question. Everyone has a right to
dispute whether it's right or wrong." Liu said in the phone interview that
he was not involved in setting up the awards.
Tan, who leads the awards committee, acknowledged that the new prize, which
comes with a purse of 100,000 yuan ($15,000), doesn't have international
recognition: "It needs to grow gradually, and we hope people will believe
the award is of global significance."
In the meantime, China is chipping away at the Nobel: It succeeded in
persuading 18 other countries to boycott the upcoming ceremony, including
longtime allies like Pakistan, Venezuela and Cuba as well as business
partners Saudi Arabia and Iran.
But Beijing's hastily arranged efforts to provide a distraction to the Nobel
ceremony are counterproductive, said Oxford University China scholar Steve
Tsang.
"The whole thing is too obviously being rushed to counter the Nobel Prize to
Liu Xiaobo. People will see it for what it is. That being the case, it's
not going to be very credible," he said.
If anything, China's heavy-handed reactions in the wake of the announcement,
which include putting Liu's wife and other supporters under house arrest
and barring dozens of activists from traveling to Oslo, "simply give the
rest of the world the impression that human rights is really in trouble in
China," he said.
___
Associated Press researcher Yu Bing contributed to this report.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101207/ap_on_re_as/as_china_nobel | M**d
发帖数: 4418 | 2 我不敢相信中国成长地这么快！Bravo！
China
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【在 m**********n 的大作中提到】
: By TINI TRAN, Associated Press Tini Tran, Associated Press – 18 mins ago
: BEIJING – Only three weeks after the idea was first publicly floated, China
: has cobbled together its own peace prize and plans to award it Thursday —
: the day before the Nobel Committee honors an imprisoned Chinese dissident in
: a move that has enraged Beijing.
: Since Liu Xiaobo's selection, China has vilified the 54-year-old democracy
: advocate, called the choice an effort by the West to contain its rise,
: disparaged his supporters as "clowns," and launched a campaign to persuade
: countries not to attend Friday's ceremony in Oslo. The government is also
: preventing Liu — who is serving an 11-year sentence for co-authoring a bold
| n******7
发帖数: 5678 | | x*********g
发帖数: 11508 | 4 今年这么一闹，明年或者后年该有大陆科学家拿诺贝尔科学奖了，呵呵。 | p****g
发帖数: 881 | 5 哇， 牛皮大了。
什么时候可以把太祖的3个世界论重新翻版如下：
3个世界：
1。 恶棍民主流氓国家 rogue democratstate
2。 垃圾民主失败国家 failed trash democratstate
3。 人民民主国家 people's republic democratstate | u****n
发帖数: 7521 | 6 "Confucius Peace Prize" 孔子和平奖 | w****i
发帖数: 2316 | | u****n
发帖数: 7521 | 8 舆论、媒体的战争是重点。
【在 w****i 的大作中提到】
: TG的学习能力很强
| t******t
发帖数: 15246 | | g**********2
发帖数: 63 | 10 看看上合和东盟就知道,this is a joke. | | | t******t
发帖数: 15246 | 11 要是真发的话，得好好选人，发给那些真正为和平而贡献的人 | a*********g
发帖数: 8087 | | c***c
发帖数: 21374 | | g*********r
发帖数: 9366 | 14 不仅仅是joke， 到时候就看打谁的脸吧
北京搭个台子， 管吃管住管交通，再贴红包， 最后台上一站 ; 中国， 朝鲜，古巴，
巴基斯坦， 缅甸，苏丹 ，索马里， 卢旺达，伊朗....
呵呵，全活了
【在 g**********2 的大作中提到】
: 看看上合和东盟就知道,this is a joke.
| B*********y
发帖数: 109 | 15 the original link from AP
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_CHINA_NOBEL?SITE=KING&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
if this is fake, AP will lose its face...
China
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【在 m**********n 的大作中提到】
: By TINI TRAN, Associated Press Tini Tran, Associated Press – 18 mins ago
: BEIJING – Only three weeks after the idea was first publicly floated, China
: has cobbled together its own peace prize and plans to award it Thursday —
: the day before the Nobel Committee honors an imprisoned Chinese dissident in
: a move that has enraged Beijing.
: Since Liu Xiaobo's selection, China has vilified the 54-year-old democracy
: advocate, called the choice an effort by the West to contain its rise,
: disparaged his supporters as "clowns," and launched a campaign to persuade
: countries not to attend Friday's ceremony in Oslo. The government is also
: preventing Liu — who is serving an 11-year sentence for co-authoring a bold
| a****s
发帖数: 559 | 16 过两年，炸药和平奖再颁给某个能被接受的中国人，tg政府该怎么表态？ | m*****5
发帖数: 23482 | 17 就该如此，踢人家的场子是找不回自己的场子的，要开自己的场子 | u****n
发帖数: 7521 | 18 挪威还管发 140万美元呢。
【在 g*********r 的大作中提到】
: 不仅仅是joke， 到时候就看打谁的脸吧
: 北京搭个台子， 管吃管住管交通，再贴红包， 最后台上一站 ; 中国， 朝鲜，古巴，
: 巴基斯坦， 缅甸，苏丹 ，索马里， 卢旺达，伊朗....
: 呵呵，全活了
| u****n
发帖数: 7521 | 19 你还替人担心了，怎么可能？。
【在 a****s 的大作中提到】
: 过两年，炸药和平奖再颁给某个能被接受的中国人，tg政府该怎么表态？
| g*********r
发帖数: 9366 | 20 咱们天朝发的比他多
咱们连观众都不止140万美元
哪个不得上亿啊？
【在 u****n 的大作中提到】
: 挪威还管发 140万美元呢。
| t*****k
发帖数: 2547 | 21
【在 t******t 的大作中提到】
: 靠，玩真的啊
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