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Winner of Beijing’s Peace Award Is Also Absent
Posted by Sophie Beach | Dec 9, 2010
In response to the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to dissident Liu Xiaobo, a group of Chinese created an alternative prize called the Confucius Peace Prize, which the Global Times heralded as, “a weapon in the battle of ideas.” Yet the recipient, Chairman Emeritus of Taiwan’s Kuomintang Party, Lien Chan, did not attend the ceremony and announced no intention of receiving the RMB100,000 award. The New York Times reports from the question and answer portion of the ceremony,m during which organizers were peppered with questions about Liu Xiaobo: