11-27-2011, 02:23 PM
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Re: Putin Wins a Peace Prize for a Decision to Go to War
Confusius Peace Prize, sounds like the Confusius Cluster Fock..
Confucius Peace Prize - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Dissident Liu Xiaobo had won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize two months earlier and that award ceremony was held on December 10;[10] the awarding of the prize to Liu was viewed negatively in China, with some in the government arguing that Liu did not promote "international friendship, disarmament, and peace meetings", the stated goal of the Nobel Peace Prize.[
In September 2011, the Ministry of Culture stated that it would be disbanding the organisers of Confucius Peace Prize and cancelling the prize.[3] The Ministry cited a news conference on September 17 that had not been approved, and the improper used of the ministry's name.[6] The Chinese Folk Art Association was quick to blame a "rogue department" for the debacle surrounding the award.[4]
Despite the cancellation, on November 15, 2011, The Guardian reported that the original organizers had formed a new committee, the China International Peace Studies Center, in Hong Kong, where they awarded the second Confucius Peace Prize to Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin. Putin beat out Angela Merkel, Bill Gates, Jacob Zuma, Kofi Annan, Yuan Longping, the Gyaincain Norbu (one of the Panchen Lamas), and Soong Chu-yu for his opposition to NATO involvement in the 2011 Libyan Civil War as well as his decision to go to war in Chechnya in 1999.[1
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