Friday, July 14, 2017

China’s only Nobel Peace Prize winner died in state custody. Hours later, Trump praised Xi Jinping.

China's only Nobel Peace Prize winner died in state custody. Hours later, Trump praised Xi Jinping.

Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo died Thursday at age 61. Liu was one of his country's best-known dissidents and became the only Chinese national to ever win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010. But his activism against one-party rule came at a huge personal cost: When he won the Nobel, he was in the middle of a lengthy prison […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/07/14/chinas-only-nobel-peace-prize-winner-died-in-state-custody-hours-later-trump-praised-xi-jinping/

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