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Protesters hold up placards with images of jailed Chinese democracy activist Liu Xiaobo during a demonstration in Hong Kong October 10, 2010.
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By Chris Buckley
BEIJING |
Mon Oct 11, 2010 2:54am EDT
BEIJING (Reuters) - The Nobel Peace Prize for Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo showed the West cannot stomach the idea of China's rise, state-run newspapers said on Monday, adding to the government's furious condemnation of the award.
Beijing called Friday's award to Liu an "obscenity."
Some state-controlled newspapers said it showed a prejudiced West afraid of China's rising wealth and power.
"The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to 'dissident' Liu Xiaobo was nothing more than another expression of this prejudice, and behind it lies an extraordinary terror of China's rise and the Chinese model," said the Global Times, a popular Chinese-language tabloid that has led the media charge against the Nobel decision.
If Liu's calls for a multi-party democracy in China were followed, a commentary in the paper said: "China's fate would perhaps be no better than the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, and the country probably would have quickly collapsed."
The China Daily, one of the government's main English-language mouthpieces, said in a commentary that the award was "part of the plot to contain China" and was gross interference in the country's internal affairs.
"Some may have expectations that such a prize will effect changes inside China in the direction they desire," it wrote.
"But it can do little expect expose, and in some ways highlight, the deep and wide ideological rift between this country and the West."
Liu, 54, has been a thorn in the government's side since 1989, when he joined student protesters on a hunger strike days before the army crushed the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement. He has been in and out of jail ever since for his campaigning for freedom of speech and political liberalization.
Liu's prize was roundly applauded in the United States and Europe, with President Barack Obama calling for his release.
Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou, though an advocate of closer ties between his island and Beijing, added his welcome to Liu's award.
"If Liu Xiaobo can regain freedom, I believe the Taiwanese people would very much appreciate China's move," Ma, his eye clearly on domestic public opinion, said over the weekend.
NO CONTACT WITH LAUREATE'S WIFE
Liu's lawyer, Shang Baojun, told Reuters that he had been unable to contact the Nobel recipient's wife, Liu Xia.
"I don't have any direct news," said Shang. "She's probably at home with communications cut off, under surveillance -- she's called it house arrest," he said, citing messages circulated on the Internet.
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Oct 11, 2010 2:08am EDT
China would do well to remember their rise to wealth and power has a lot to do with exporting to the West. If the West suddenly decided to be less of a trade partner with China, China’s high flying ways would nosedive into the dust bin.If this is the kind of intimidating stance China wants to take, Western countries should consider it a wake up call to become a little more self reliant industrial wise and put their own citizens back to work. For some reason China has come to think of itself as indespensable. The truth is: If we don’t buy, China does’t fly. Multi-national corporations have been responsible, with the help of the U.S. Congress, in the wholesale shipping of industrial manufacturing jobs to China while China’s worldwide spying steals corporate technology and state secrets as way of doing business. It is time to remind China that, like it or not, they rely on the rest of the world for their improved standard of living.China’s motives should always be viewed with a large degree of skeptism for everything they do is with a “us versus them” mind set.
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