I am not going to make moral judgments here on China’s decision, but I will say that by making all this fuss about the Nobel Prize, China inadvertently made Liu Xiaobo much more famous around the world.
This would have been a regular ceremony with its temporary fanfare and forgotten the next day, especially with all the buzz that Wikileaks is creating everyday.
It seemed to me that emotions and not practical reasons led the Chinese leadership this time around. But, they probably know it by now.
Norwegian Nobel committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland speaks during the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo on December 10, in front of honoree, Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.
