UN politics tied up with China bashing
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The US-led anti-China campaign on behalf of Liu Xiaobo who was awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize last month, seems now to have even reached the internal politics of the UN top leadership position in 2011.
The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was bombarded by so-called human rights activists and organizations, specifically headed by Human Rights Watch (HRW), for not pressing China in public on its human rights issue?
The main reason why the UN top leadership was scolded by a mere human rights guy was that he did not listen to the kind of "behind-the-door" orders from, most likely, the US and its allies.
These orders come from all sorts of hate-mongering China-bashers or anti-China groups and organizations around the world.
It seems now the Liu Xiaobo case has been thrown into another dimension where the US and the West have begun to argue who should be considered for the next UN Secretary General in 2011, when Ban's post opens up for election again.
It can be read as warning signs or pre-calculated pressures from the US and the West as well.
If Ban is interested in his reelection bid for his second term, he had better behave now, otherwise he will not get any support from the US, which originally played the most crucial and decisive role in putting him where he is now.
HRW UN specialist Phillip Bolopion warned "If this is to win China's favor for his reelection, the secretary general risks losing the support of those who want a secretary general who is courageous and firm on human rights questions."
It seems indeed that the US now, mainly together with its Western allies, particularly with the Nobel Peace Committee in front, is determined to push the Liu case further in an apparent effort to pressure China.
They organized another very much inflammatory and provocative event, the so-called "World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates" in Hiroshima, Japan on November 12-14. This was apparently facilitated by the Japanese government, which is not on good terms with China at the moment.
Wuer Kaixi, a Chinese democracy activist, attended the meeting of Nobel Peace Prize laureates in Hiroshima on behalf of imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, the winner of the 2010 prize. Other attendees included the former director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei.
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