What's behind 'enshrining' Liu Xiaobo?
Alfred Nobel had noble intentions for the Peace Prize, but the Nobel Committee didn't live up to them when it decided to confer the prize on Liu Xiaobo, a convict from China.
Despite the political nature of the Peace Prize, the Nobel Committee went too far this time by championing a defunct ideology and trying to transform other nations.
What did the Committee intend to do?
By enshrining a convict, the Committee pulled the old trick of trying to impose the Western values and political system on the rest of the world.
By "enshrining" Liu Xiaobo, it intended to shame China.
By "enshrining" Liu Xiaobo, it intended to boost the morale of those who attempt to separate China, bring trouble to China or even subvert the current Chinese political system.
By "enshrining" Liu Xiaobo, it intended to interfere in the domestic affairs of those countries that do not follow the Western model.
By "enshrining" Liu Xiaobo, it intended to carry out the strategy of exporting the Western political system to China, and in the long run, to change China's path of development.
The Committee is not alone, as it represents some groups and people in the West who can't get rid of the Cold War mentality.
To pursue the above-mentioned objectives, the Committee turned a blind eye to Liu's deeds as well as to the principles of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Everyone knows that Liu Xiaobo, who is supposed to be "honored" in a ceremony in Oslo on Friday, is an imprisoned criminal and what he has done has nothing to do with "peace."
Why did the Committee select Liu as this year's winner?
The answer is clear: Liu has done everything he could to subvert the Chinese government, and that suits the strategy of some organizations and people in the West toward China.
That's why some people in the West immediately embraced the Nobel Committee's decision, launching a new round of China-bashing.
Nowadays, some people in the West still believe that the Western values and system are the best, and the rest of the world should follow their suit.
They also believe that they have the mission to peddle the Western political system and values to the entire world.
To this end, they usually adopt two approaches, either force and wars, or supporting those who purportedly represent these values and ideology.
In the case of China, they dare not to resort to force as they did in the case of Iraq and Afghanistan, so they turn to the second approach.
This is not, by any means, a new approach.
The West has pursued this approach in its strategy against the former Soviet Union during the Cold War era.
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