What is the best way of dealing with a political dissident receiving a Nobel Peace Prize? It’s very similar to the five steps to deal with death- Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance- minus the last step. At least that’s what Beijing thinks. When the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo this year, Chinese Government went into an insane drive to destroy world’s most prestigious award.
From blocking out the news from the internet(!) to arranging a political hit job on Xiaobo, threatening the Nobel Prize Committee, making up its own version of Nobel Prize, to finally pressurizing 16 countries (including Russia and Saudi Arabia) to boycott Nobel Prize Ceremony, China used every possible tactic in Oppressive Regime & Evil Dictator Handbook. For some reason I am not looking forward to a world dominated by the Chinese Dragon.
Of course, Chinese attempt to deny (read defy) reality was nothing compared to their southern neighbor…
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