Beijing residents wonder: Liu Xiao-who?

[Char_Azn]

Beijing residents wonder: Liu Xiao-who?

BEIJING - LIU Xiaobo may be lauded by the international community for his tireless efforts to promote human rights and democracy in China, but the jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner's ideals remain a mystery to many in Beijing.

Ask a person the street what he or she thinks of Liu, whose award will be formally bestowed in Oslo on Friday, and the first reaction is often: 'Who?'.

That response is testament to the effectiveness of government efforts to erase the memory of the bloody crackdown against pro-democracy demonstrators around Beijing's Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, an event seminal to Liu's life.

'I think I saw something about that on television, but I'm not sure,' said businesswoman Ma Junpeng when asked about Liu.

Ms Ma shrugged her shoulders upon being told he had won the prize for his efforts since 1989 to push for greater political freedom in China.

'It's not rational to reward a man like that,' she said, shivering in the Beijing cold. 'Everything is different now since the revolt of 1989. People's ideas have changed. China has changed. People like Liu are irrelevant.' China jailed Liu last Christmas Day for 11 years for subversion of state power and for being the lead author of Charter 08, a manifesto calling for democratic reform in the one-party state

Like I said earlier, the locals don't care even when they found out who that joker is. Only human right hippies from Ang Moh land thinks its a big deal.

In which case I think the "locals" they spoke to are a bit out of touch. Most of my colleagues in Shanghai and Beijing knows who Liu Xiao Bo is

 

[cleareyes]

Like I said earlier, the locals don't care even when they found out who that joker is. Only human right hippies from Ang Moh land thinks its a big deal.

In which case I think the "locals" they spoke to are a bit out of touch. Most of my colleagues in Shanghai and Beijing knows who Liu Xiao Bo is

Its sad when your own people dont know what you did.

 

[jacobsgoh]

The chinese govt has every right to oppose the award to Liu as he is Chinese; fact is nobody in China should be awarded for anything to do with human rights, because non of them is human.

 

[Sideswipe]

Tit for Tat, China should have awarded the Confucius Peace Prize to Osama Bin Laden just to piss off everybody.

 

[jw5]

Tit for Tat, China should have awarded the Confucius Peace Prize to Osama Bin Laden just to piss off everybody.

And arrest him at the award ceremony?

 

[Ramseth]

Nobel Prize is a joke since Obama won it. Come to think of it, US presidency is also a joke. The powers-that-be behind the scene just want an idiot puppet who could speak the moronese language to the moronic masses while they hold the strings. In fact, it started with Bush Jr. Now it doesn't matter whether Republican or Democrat.

 

[silverfox@]

Nobel Prize is a joke since Obama won it. Come to think of it, US presidency is also a joke. The powers-that-be behind the scene just want an idiot puppet who could speak the moronese language to the moronic masses while they hold the strings. In fact, it started with Bush Jr. Now it doesn't matter whether Republican or Democrat.

one day maybe CSJ can be a contender for this prize too. :p

 

[Cruxx]

Nobel Prize is a joke since Obama won it. Come to think of it, US presidency is also a joke. The powers-that-be behind the scene just want an idiot puppet who could speak the moronese language to the moronic masses while they hold the strings. In fact, it started with Bush Jr. Now it doesn't matter whether Republican or Democrat.

Yes we can! Yes we can! Americans are an anti-intellectual bunch. They want simple choices, simple answers. "Sarah Palin is hot. Let's vote for her." "Oh look, there's a black man! Let's vote for him"

 

[Sideswipe]

one day maybe CSJ can be a contender for this prize too. :p

CSJ deserves it more than Liu.

Did Liu ever use loudhailer and shouted at Hu Jintao asking for Chinese Peoples' Money? No but CSJ did that for Singaporeans.

 

[GoldenDragon]

CSJ deserves it more than Liu.

Did Liu ever use loudhailer and shouted at Hu Jintao asking for Chinese Peoples' Money? No but CSJ did that for Singaporeans.

CSJ not good enough. UncleYap's the best!

 

[Cruxx]

CSJ not good enough. UncleYap's the best!

Uncle Yap is a joke. Don't even know what he himself is fighting for. Had to look up wikipedia. And yet, till this day, he still doesn't know what socialism is. Really a bunch of jokers these 反对党