It should be marked as the most "unpeaceful" night of Nobel Peace Prize. As to date, More than ten people in Beijing and Shanghai who voluntarily celebrated the event were taken into custody.
2010 Nobel Prize for Peace Awarded to Liu Xiaobo
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I wonder what a google search would return.
google.com.hk has the prize winner listed as the third link with the terms "nobel peace prize 2010". Google.cn still redirects to google.com.hk for searching. http://www.google.com.hk/search?hl=zh-CN&source=hp&b...
Baidu also has search results relating to the subject:
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Presumably Norway is one of the few countries that doesn't have to worry too much about upsetting the Chinese - they have huge amounts of money and oil and Russia in between them and the Chinese.
Having money doesn't mean that trade embargoes or tariffs won't hurt a country at the margin. The goods that are available to them to buy with that money through international trade will decline in number, which is a clear loss. You can't live on oil alone.
well, you may not be able to live on oil alone, but the oil funded norwegian sovereign fund already owns 1% of the global equity markets and are heading for 2% of the european stock markets (with the oil still being pumped out).
Moreover, an embargo is only effective if it can be enforced, there is nothing stopping chinese goods going from other european countries, they would only have a bit higher overhead.
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Yes, an independent committee whose "five members are appointed by the Norwegian Parliament and roughly represent the political makeup of that body”. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_Nobel_Committee
That may be true, but they aren't speaking with the authority of the state. There is a difference.
Sure, I don’t disagree, I just wanted to provide some nuance to the word ”independent”.
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#45> Of course, equating the Nobel committee with the Norwegian government is as wrong as equating a newspaper editor printing Islamic cartoons with it, then torching down an embassy. This is very western way of seeing thing, which I happen to agree. The current Chinese education system has been trying very hard, and quite successfully, to mix these concepts together: country, geographic land, government, ethnic group i…
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