China warns Norway against peace Nobel for dissident

[sonomak]

Source: Reuters

The head of the Norwegian Nobel Institute said on Monday that a senior Chinese official told him that awarding the peace prize to a Chinese dissident would affect relations between Oslo and Beijing.

Nobel Institute Director Geir Lundestad's comments came after Czech dissident Vaclav Havel called on the Nobel Peace Committee to award the prize to jailed Chinese human rights campaigner Liu Xiaobo.

Lundestad, who organises the meetings of the secretive five-member Nobel Peace Prize Committee, said China's Deputy Foreign Minister Fu Ying met him during a visit to Oslo this summer to deliver the message.

"(Such a decision) would pull the wrong strings in relations between Norway and China, it would be seen as an unfriendly act," Lundestad told Norwegian news agency NTB, repeating Fu's comments during their meeting at the Chinese embassy in Oslo.

Read more: http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTRE68Q5VF20100927

[Democrats_win]

1. When China rules the world. Another Bush legacy.

Is this the kind of freedom that Bush and the tea buggers always talk about? Well, after fooling around in bush's wars, America should be standing up to China instead of paying them interest on the money Bush borrowed from them to pay for his wars. Communist China! They killed Americans during the Korean war! Far more Americans were killed by China than were killed on 9/11. Another instance where bush took his eye off of the ball. Strike 3, you're out Conservatives.

[bossy22]

3. Its not only the money aspect

the strategic mistake also cannot be overlooked. Instead of spending money on assets to contain china (naval assets) we spent resources on fighting land wars. Now you have an entire sect of the defense community that wants to turn the military into a force designed for fighting prolonged land wars- the kind that we should not be engaged in

The truth is that the U.S. has to get out of iraq and afganistan and start putting money into her navy.

[Octafish]

8. Olympic Games Show Who’s Best Friends Forever with Authoritarians and Dictators

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3752583

[zonkers]

2. China, brace your bad self for widespread civil unrest. It's coming.

[wolfie001]

4. The sooner the better!!! nt

[nyy1998]

5. Too bad China. The whole world doesn't go to you whim.

[Nihil]

6. Don't fret the small stuff China ...

... the Nobel Peace Prize has been seriously devalued over the years ...
:thumbsdown:

[pampango]

7. Other countries have warned about Nobel rewarding their dissidents over the years. Warnings don't

seem to matter to them.