Financial Times (December 10)
For several years, “China has displayed a smiling face to the world and promoted its economic prowess.” The mask is off. “Beijing has again revealed a forbidding, autocratic scowl.” The Financial Times believes China should simply have ignored the selection of Liu Xiaobo for the Nobel Peace Prize. By making an issue of this, “China is behaving like a world-class bully.”
Tags: China, Liu Xiaobo, Nobel
New York Times (November 2)
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon met with China’s President Hu Jintao to discuss several issues including climate change. The New York Time’s criticizes Mr. Ban for being “shamefully silent on one critical issue: China’s poor human rights record and its unjustified imprisonment of Liu Xiaobo,” who won a Nobel Peace Prize this year. Mr. Ban should hold China to its responsibilities as a signatory of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Tags: Ban Ki-moon, China, Hu Jintao, Human rights, Liu Xiaobo, U.N.
