Nobel committee can't see the entire picture
For China, they can pity and can sympathize, but cannot tolerate that China's economy is increasing at over 8 percent annually while their own countries are struggling with economic recovery.
Westerners belligerently think it should be the West leading and the East obedient, and this international principle cannot be challenged.
The so-called improvement of China's fundamental human rights requires China to follow the road of the West and do what the West wants it to.
Let's look to history for some examples. In 1975, during the most competitive period between the Soviet Union and the West, the Nobel Peace Prize was timely awarded to Andrei Sakharov, a Soviet dissident. When the Soviet Union yielded to the West, the Nobel Peace Prize was timely awarded to Mikhail Gorbachev. Did Gorbachev win the award just because he directly brought down the Soviet Union?
Let us look at the awards in recent years.
In 2009, the Peace Prize was awarded to US President Barack Obama. Some of the media commented, "The five people play up to Obama so brazenly that even many Americans feel sick."
In 2007, it was awarded to former US Vice President Al Gore. Some scholars have lamented, "A politician who does not understand the problems of climate change got the Nobel Peace Prize because of this academic issue."
Li Ao, a well-known Taiwan commentator, said, "Most people only know about bad boys, but forget about bad old people. The problems of bad boys are caused by bad old people."
Sadly, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has become a gathering place of bad old people. They successfully dragged the Nobel Peace Prize to failure.
The original intention of the establishment of the Nobel Peace Prize was to reward a person that "has made efforts to promote national harmony, promote international friendship, promote disarmament and publicize peaceful meetings."
But now it is lost on political roads, regardless of its original intention.
Maybe it will go the way of entertainment. Mr. Jagland is just like the creator of an outdated soap opera. His plots may be funny or strange but it is hard to take them seriously.
But it is unfair to Alfred Nobel, the scientist the award is named after. He left $9.2 million and set up this famous award.
We can only wonder how he would feel if he knew this ideological hammer was driving this award.
The author is a current affairs commentator. forum@globaltimes.
