Following are excerpts from an article headlined "China peace prize awarded to Russia's Putin" at http://uk.news.yahoo.com/china-peace-prize-awarded-russias-putin-085842909.html (Begin excerpts) A group of Chinese academics has awarded its version of the Nobel Peace Prize to Vladimir Putin, an organiser said Tuesday, pointing to the Russian Prime Minister as "outstanding in keeping world peace." Putin beat other candidates such as German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Yuan Longping, a Chinese agricultural scientist, to nab this year's "Confucius Peace Prize", Qiao Damo, one of the organisers, told AFP ......."There are 16 people in the evaluation committee, including me and three professors, eight PhD students and four of our centre's researchers," said Qiao, a poet. According to a report in China Newsweek, a current affairs weekly, other members include professors from the prestigious Beijing and Tsinghua universities. Nine of the 16 voted for Putin. "This April or May, Putin was against NATO's idea to bomb Libya and he appeared to the world in a peaceful manner," Qiao explained. "This year's peace prize was given to him because his act this year was outstanding in keeping world peace." Qiao, who said the Russian embassy had been informed about Putin's win but had not yet given a response, said the group would hold its award ceremony in Beijing on December 9 -- a day before the Nobel Peace Prize event in Oslo. "I feel the Noble Peace Prize has gone too far away from peace, and their standard has gone too far away from the essence of peace," he said. "Western values are not perfect and need an alternative to balance them out." (End excerpts) Following the award of a peace prize, Putin may tell his US counterpart next time when they meet: "You have, I also have." What he means is: "You have the Nobel Peace Prize, I have the Confucius Peace Prize." It's a remote possibility for a China peace prize to be awarded to any US President in the future. However, the possibility will be much higher for a US dissident or a pro-independence Native American to win the Confucius Peace Prize. After awarding the peace prize, it won't be surprising to find China open at least one of its ports to regular visits by Russian warships in the future so that the Russian man of peace can help to keep the peace in Asia. Russia will definitely be pleased with such a development as it allows its Pacific Fleet to circumvent American and Japanese blockade in North-East Asia.
the idea of a Chinese Peace Prize is priceless. who do they think they're fooling? they are militarizing themselves!
Same with the Nobel Peace Prize, only that the US will never want it to be appreciated in value. They have learned the art of fooling from Westerners. All nations, particularly the US, are militarizing unless they want to end up like the dinosaurs.
