Apparently bewildered by global applause at the decision to award imprisoned democracy dissident Liu Xiaobo the Nobel Peace Prize, this very defensive editorial from China’s state-controlled Global Times argues that the United States and the West ‘prohibits political diversity among countries.’ Later, in apparent defense of its own authoritarianism, it continues, ‘in some situations, the West supports authoritarian governments based on pure self interest.’
The editorial from China’s Global Times starts out this way:
For the West, the sum of $1.4 million is a fairly modest for sparking an ideological war with China, which is what it did by awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo.
It was bound to happen. If Liu weren’t selected, it would have been someone else from China on the shortlist, which included Rebiya Kadeer [a Uyghur activist in exile in the U.S.], Hu Jia [activist on AIDS, land rights and democracy] and Wei Jingshen [legendary democracy activist and former Red Guard in U.S. exile].
The West will continue to target China in its ideological war. It seems that the Western way has to be the only way, and people around the globe must adopt Western attitudes. In the minds of some Westerners, even if China grows and develops into a highly advanced nation, it will still need to surrender to Western ideology.
The democracy that the West tries to export advocates freedom of choice. But why is it that while the West avidly heralds individual freedom, it prohibits political diversity among countries?
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