The cliches of Nobel Committee chairman
Figures tell the truth about majority and minority.
Just as Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu put it: "The people on the Nobel Committee must admit they are the minority. The Chinese people and a majority of countries and people in the world all oppose what they have done."
Jagland seemed to have set aside the pressure from China. But could he turn a blind eye to the vast support China enjoys on this issue internationally and disregard the attitudes of the world's majority?
Moreover, during the press conference, Jagland also demonstrated his ignorance of China, his arrogance as well as prejudice.
According to Jagland, awarding Liu is "a signal to China" that "it will be very important for China's future to combine economic development with political reforms."
But the "signal" seems nothing more than his arrogantly lecturing China by awarding a criminal, and his committee's pointing fingers at China's political system and development model.
Over the past six decades, especially since the adoption of the reform and opening up policy, China has made unprecedented progress in democratic politics and the human rights cause.
When China's efforts were widely acknowledged by the international community, Jagland deliberately dismissed them.
As Norwegian lawyer Fredrik S. Heffermehl said in an email sent to reporters in Oslo on Wednesday, "The 2010 Peace Prize reflects the mindset of people still caught in Western paternalism and a Cold War mentality."
All in all, Jagland's latest "signal" turned out to be mere political cliches, which are set to be rejected by the Chinese people and the majority of the international community at large.
