http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/08/confucius-peace-prize-china_n_793610.html
China has created its own peace prize, that is rivaling the Nobel committee. The Nobel Committee is honoring an imprisoned Chinese dissident. China has talked badly about Liu Xiaobo as well as his supporters. Liu is serving a 11 year jail sentence, and is being prevented from attending the ceremony for the Confucius Peace Prize. This award was created and promoted to show peace among China, and to go against the Nobel committee.
Questions that are raised, are why is an imprisoned person being honored by other people? Why was Lui imprisoned in the first place?
I appears that the Confucius Peace prize is supposed to promote the viewpoint of peace throughout China. This article slightly contradicts my opinion because the Chairman of Taiwan's Nationalist party was selected to win the award.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-as-china-confucius-prize,0,653495.story
Vocab words
dissident- a person who opposes official policy, esp that of an authoritarian state.
vilified- to speak or write about in an abusively disparaging manner.
disparaging- regarded or represented as being of little worth
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