I've posted the article with no intentions to discuss whether Liu Xiaobo deserves the prize or not. That's of no importance for me. But what I find entertaining is how this shameless act on the part of Nobel Committee accurately renders recent political events, i.e. China dismissing US demands to revalue yuan. Maybe my connection to exact event is a bit off and I'm reading into too much, but what I'm sure about is this was an organized move to heat up US-China conflicting relationships.
It's no secret that Nobel Peace Prize and for that matter some other awards have from time to time became a political tools (Sakharov, Solzhenitsyn, Gorbachev, Pasternak to name the few), so the only decisive part that mattered to Nobel Committee was the fact that Liu Xiaobo is a dissident who was oppresed by regime, regardless of how exactly he meets requirements of Nobel's will. And he didn't according to norwegian jurist and author of the book "Nobel's Will", Fredrik Heffermehl, who was recently quoted to say that Nobel Peace Prize is supposed to be first and foremost an antimilitaristic prize, but since Cold War has started barely 50% of nominees meet this requirement.
Indeed it looks very like Cold War mentality. Political establishment of whoever lobbied the prize is loosing their grip on reality, usually when this happens gerontocracy acts according to old cliches, and that's exactly what it looks like.
@Lostplanet22
Are you a Chinese?
@d21lewis
You're talking about Ling Xiaoyu =)
