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发帖数: 27535 | 1 OSLO, Norway (AP) — China is not the first nation to be rankled by a Nobel
Peace Prize. But its furious assault on the 2010 award to jailed dissident
Liu Xiaobo has reached proportions last seen during the Soviet and Nazi
regimes.
Even Cold War dissidents Andrei Sakharov and Lech Walesa were able to have
their wives collect the prizes for them. Myanmar democracy activist Aung San
Suu Kyi's award was accepted by her 18-year-old son in 1991.
But China's clampdown on Liu's relatives means the Nobel medal and diploma
likely won't be handed out for the first time since 1936, when Adolf Hitler
prevented German pacifist Carl von Ossietzky from accepting the prize.
China's heavy-handedness risks a backlash, particularly as Chinese President
Hu Jintao prepares to visit Washington in January for a pomp-filled state
visit.
"The Nobel Prize fiasco merely strengthens a growing suspicion of China —
but also indicates that China feels it has enough power now not to really
care about international opinion. Probably a serious miscalculation for
China," said Christopher Hughes, a professor of China's international
affairs at the London School of Economics.
With Liu serving an 11-year prison sentence for subversion, his wife in
house arrest and their families refusing interviews out of pressure, it isn'
t clear whether Liu himself is being pressured to renounce the prize.
Prisoners are allowed one monthly meeting with family. At the last known
meeting, with his wife just after he won the prize, Liu said he wants to
dedicate the award to the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown.
The criticism implicit in the Nobel is all the more stinging to Chinese
leaders because of the country's advances. The Chinese leadership has in the
past 30 years lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty and built China
from a backwater into an economic power while the government has become less
intrusive in people's private lives.
Beijing sees the prize as a rebuke to Chinese efforts to integrate
peacefully with a world order still dominated by the West. Worse, the Nobel
announcement came as the leadership was feeling besieged by rising calls in
a fast-changing Chinese society for greater respect for civil liberties and
respect for the law — causes Liu championed.
A result has been a display of government nastiness unparalleled in recent
years. It has tried to persuade or warn foreign governments to boycott the
Dec. 10 award ceremony in Oslo. A handful of nations have declined
invitations, including Russia.
Moscow says its ambassador will not be in Norway at the time, and denied it
had anything to do with Chinese pressure. Still, the alignment of the two
emerging powers may offer a glimpse of future clashes over human rights
between the world's traditional economic giants and its awakening ones.
At home, police have detained and threatened scores of democracy campaigners
and civil rights lawyers to keep them from feeling emboldened by the Nobel.
The media, all of which is state-controlled, has run a propaganda campaign
domestically to demonize Liu as a criminal and the Nobel award as the tool
of a West out to contain a newly powerful but peaceful China.
Senior officials have even suggested that the U.S. government was somehow
behind the Nobel's decision — an insinuation Secretary of State Clinton had
to rebut in a meeting in China last month.
Nobel historian Asle Sveen said the Chinese reaction compares with Nazi
Germany's response in 1936 and that of the Soviet Union when Russian
scientist-turned-dissident Andrei Sakharov was awarded the prize at the
height of the Cold War.
Hitler was so enraged by the prize to von Ossietzky, a journalist found
guilty of treason for publishing secret information on German rearmament in
the interwar period, that he prohibited all Germans from ever receiving
Nobel Prizes. That caused three Germans — chemistry winners Richard Kuhn
and Adolf Butenandt and medicine winner Gerhard Domagk — to decline their
awards.
Likewise, Russian writer Boris Pasternak was forced by Soviet authorities to
decline his 1958 Nobel Prize in literature.
Soviet authorities also barred Sakharov from collecting the 1975 peace prize
and stripped him of his honorary titles.
But his wife, Jelena Bonner, was able to accept it for him because she had
been granted an exit visa to Italy for treatment of an eye disease before
the prize announcement, Sveen said.
"We do not know whether the authorities would have allowed her to go if she
had been in the Soviet Union at the time," Sveen said.
The Chinese government's measures in connection with Liu's award are more
vehement than when another nemesis, the Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai
Lama, was given the peace prize in 1989.
Beijing was isolated internationally at the time, having four months earlier
sent the military to crush the Tiananmen Square democracy movement and then
seen the communist East Bloc begin to crumble. Tibet was under martial law,
dissidents were either in jail, in hiding or fleeing into exile and the
economy was listless as Western investors largely shunned China.
Frank Pieke, a professor of Chinese studies at the University of Leiden, the
Netherlands, said he was surprised that China didn't let the issue cool
down after its immediate — and expected — criticism following this year's
prize announcement in October.
Instead it upped the ante by trying to persuade other nations to stay away
from the ceremony. The last time anything similar occurred was when Warsaw
Pact countries snubbed the ceremony for Sakharov's prize.
So far only four nations besides China and Russia have declined invitations
to the ceremony — Cuba, Kazakhstan, Morocco and Iraq — for unspecified
reasons.
That's not a great result if China was hoping to use the opportunity to show
its rising international clout.
But Pieke said the Chinese leadership's tough stance on the Nobel is
primarily a message to the Chinese people.
"It's a way of showing that the communist party is as strong as its ever
been," he said.
Even if no one picks up the award for Liu, other parts of the prize ceremony
will go ahead as planned. A children's choir will perform — as requested
by Liu — and Norwegian actress Liv Ullmann will read a text written by him.
Geir Lundestad, the spokesman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, said the
absence of a prize recipient won't make the 2010 prize fall into oblivion: "
I agree with those who say that the prizes to laureates who could not attend
the ceremony have become among the most important." | s**r
发帖数: 6678 | 2 明明是他们把奖发给了中国的一个罪犯，结果倒是中国的不是了。 | n******7
发帖数: 5678 | 3 “So far only four nations besides China and Russia have declined
invitations
to the ceremony — Cuba, Kazakhstan, Morocco and Iraq — for unspecified
reasons.
That's not a great result if China was hoping to use the opportunity to show
its rising international clout.”
看看美联社的污蔑技巧， it丝毫不提16个国家过期不回复。 | o****y
发帖数: 26355 | 4 But his wife did not commit any crime and the government should let her go
to
collect the prize.
【在 s**r 的大作中提到】
: 明明是他们把奖发给了中国的一个罪犯，结果倒是中国的不是了。
| f**k
发帖数: 15238 | 5 这不对了
抢劫犯把赃款寄存在别人家,抢劫犯的老婆可以去拿,但是变成了从犯.
土共本着爱护刘霞的目的不让她去,是避免让她称为从犯.
【在 o****y 的大作中提到】
: But his wife did not commit any crime and the government should let her go
: to
: collect the prize.
| o****y
发帖数: 26355 | 6 That should be after she collect the money.
She now is not a criminal, the government should not restrict her movement.
【在 f**k 的大作中提到】
: 这不对了
: 抢劫犯把赃款寄存在别人家,抢劫犯的老婆可以去拿,但是变成了从犯.
: 土共本着爱护刘霞的目的不让她去,是避免让她称为从犯.
| f**k
发帖数: 15238 | 7 劝人向善
预防犯罪
【在 o****y 的大作中提到】
: That should be after she collect the money.
: She now is not a criminal, the government should not restrict her movement.
| o****y
发帖数: 26355 | 8 Then that is why other country ppl do not understand. It is still a few days
away la. I like to think TG is already smart enough to handle these things.
Most likely, TG will still let her go, just in the last minute.
【在 f**k 的大作中提到】
: 劝人向善
: 预防犯罪
| h****l
发帖数: 2993 | 9 所有让白种人高兴的事能不干就不要干，就是这样！
【在 o****y 的大作中提到】
: That should be after she collect the money.
: She now is not a criminal, the government should not restrict her movement.
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