Surprise! Liu Xiaobo's wife now under house arrest

Bombshell time:

http://cmp.hku.hk/2010/10/13/8035/

Imprisoning people for speaking out is pathetic, wherever it occurs- as is supporting the practice.

You disagree with something someone says? Then argue, debate, protest- but don't use the judiciary to quash freedom of speech.

Not allowing dissent is a sign of a weak and failing government- otherwise, what harm could mere words do? Liu Xiaobo didn't take up arms against the state- he took up a pen, and had the courage to publish his opinions over his name, even though he must have known the CCP would react badly.

That courage deserves recognition, support and admiration- though I do think that the Peace Prize blew its credibility with the whole Obama affair, and that it having been awarded to Liu Xiaobo will set the whole process of China's progress out of totalitarianism back, simply because the CCP act like kids when criticized and will pig-headedly do the opposite, just to make their point.

Now, for the apologists out there, save your breath with the inevitable shit-flinging at other nations- I don't care. You have a point, conceded- but this is about China, not the US, UK, or Upper Bratislava. Because they do similar/worse/different shit does not make China's smell any better.

Reporter Brent Stephen wrote:

“Chinese work; we whine. They save for the future; we borrow from it. They build skyscrapers, nuclear plants, airports and cities seemingly overnight. We spend years neurotically measuring, then greedily litigating, asbestos leaks.

They pay an invisible price for their way of civilization in the coin of freedom. But we pay a visible price for our way of it in the coin of efficiency. Reasonable people are entitled to wonder: Are we really getting the better part of that trade-off?”

Chinese know what is right or wrong for them. They also know what West press China to do is out of their geopolitical reason because West never want China rising. So imprisoning one single man for China's future is beyond your ability to understand. 5 year after Liu Xioabo finished serving his term with no single day less, you’ll know the answer when successful China’s model send Chinese fleet for a casual cruise in Mexico Gulf, as a reward to your doing at China’s door today. You should be 100% sure about it.

"Chinese know what is right or wrong for them. They also know..." Come on, you really believe that? I'm not saying the West knows what's right, rather that most Chinese are spoon fed the "correct" opinion and encouraged to rally with the other "correct" masses. If you replace "Chinese" with "CCP" then I'd agree with you.

Perfect.

In classic Chingky chong fashion, the ccpee will lash out at everyone in China because it is too powerless to anything of substance beyond its borders.

Meanwhile, all of East Asia and Oceana welcomes the US Navy and Marines.

"welcomes the US Navy and Marines"?

I remember they were welcomed in Iraq, with "open-arms", too. lol!

Ever read "Ugly American"? It'll explain you why you are 'welcomed' and why you are ugly. Chinese are patient in waiting.

Amazing she is still allowed to twiter and cops already informed Liu Xiaobo of his reward. Man, isn’t it here a Maoist fascist country where our oppressed expats celebrity and all Chinese are living in concentration camps with head deliberately shaved like Mrs. Liu Xia who must have a tattoo number on her bony arm?

Nobel Prize should be granted as a REWARD, not as a tool to INFLUENCE and REVENGE. Now I can well imagined how a rising China hurt the West feeling, so much that a Nobel Committee has degenerated into a farce only double-standard Westerners enjoy and is still degenerating.

With the Prize being so much tainted that it is now worth nothing, I feel sorry for some worthy laurates in the past, including Satre who courageously refused it. Of course the longest serving CIA employee Dalai Lama and Viet Nam war criminal Henry Kissinger are not included.

While I totally agree with keeping the one behind the bar who openly called the old colonists’ rule, which is definitely the VERY reason why he was awarded, I feel shocked by some Yank rednecks’ thick faces. With their system a proven failure, they want Chinese to follow their rotten model; While deeply in debt to China, they sent gunboat to China’s door; With its 4% of world population but 25% of world prison population, they insist on lecturing China on human right without the least knowledge that Chinese value is based on right of community and refuse to believe Liu Xiaobo only represents 1% of Chinese. Put it simple: they just refused to accept the fact: in this world there is a thing called “shame”.

geez, RUSHOUR, why write an essay? You write as if you're in some kind of amorous cultural fusion.

An interview with Liu Xia: "http://video.nytimes.com/video..."