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| 2009/10/10 |
Thoughts from Nobel prize -- all about presidents
My PC has been sent back to Dell for hard drive re-imaging, therefore I am still using somebody else's computer to write. Please forgive my English, as currently I still have no Chinese language function. To add to the embarrassment, for some reason I can't seem to respond to my own article, thus I have to patch it here, as an addendum, sort of.
President Obama has been awarded the Nobel peace prize today. Although somewhat controversial, it is by no means beyond stretch of anybody's wildest imagination. Although Mr. Obama hasn't done anything "significant" so to speak, to warrant such a noble honor, as some people claimed, the committee has concluded, and (the previous vice president) Mr. Gore concurred, that in his position, what President Obama has brought about are more than what deeds can be expected to accomplish -- he has changed America from a "going it alone" nation to one that is willing to associate, negotiate, consult, and cooperate, and he has created a world-wide peaceful atmosphere for nations to deal with just about any issue among themselves, in which America is the most prominent member country. What president Obama has achieved can only be "proven" in longer terms over the course of history, and this view has been reflected by many American people today to certain degree.
Even China's human right activist Wei Jing-Sheng (the guy was put in jail for a full 15 years) was among the nominees, this from what I've just heard on CNN news.
Why not Hu Jin-Tao and Wen Jia-Bao? What did they NOT do?
As I have repeated numerous times in this blog, Freedom, Democracy, Human Right, and Rule by Law are pan-world values, that need no further clarification or lengthy explanation. Who is contributing to world peace, and who isn't, is as simple and clear as water and air.
In the same broadcast, Premier Hu Jin-Tao gave a speech to a conglomeration of foreign news agencies and their reporters in China. Premier Hu re-emphasized his stance in China's determination in pushing for non-interfering news gathering and/or reporting, plus the guarantee of no-hindrance internet communication -- for foreign reporters.
This is odd -- why not for EVERYBODY? Why are Chinese people less deserving than foreigners? Doesn't the Chinese constitution protects such freedom, in writing, for all its people? Unless I am mistaken by its wording, I vividly remember it DOES contain such clauses. So much for rule by law of the land!
As one of the responses correctly pointed out yesterday (I deleted it because it was in simplified Chinese), I am not too interested in listening to convoluted excuses or lengthy explanations. It is just good and right to be honest, and nobody is a fool here, so why strive to deceive?
I hope one day we'll see Mr. Hu or Mr. Wen's name among the nominees of Nobel peace prize candidates, that, will tell the world loud and clear, "Yes, we may be communists, but we have changed for the better, and we can contribute to world peace as any of you can, perhaps even better"!
I am not sure Mr. Hu and Mr. Wen didn't think of this upon noticing president Obama's winning of the peace award. Who knows? Maybe they have already started the process of imagination.
Remember what late president Reagan said? "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall"!
Remember?
We need a Chinese Gorbachev, and that can come only from mainland China. Please don't give me any more excuses. USSR was the MOTHER of all communism, and they produced Grobachev. Why can't China?
On that note, president Ma has just announced the cancellation of the double-ten national celebration. Eying the calamity of the recent typhoon, this is a right decision, IMO.
