With Suu Kyi free, China’s Liu is only jailed peace laureate
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BEIJING — China is now the only country to detain a Nobel Peace laureate after Myanmar released Aung San Suu Kyi, but experts say the unwonted limelight will not prod Beijing into freeing dissident writer Liu Xiaobo anytime soon.
Nobel Committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland said the Myanmar democracy icon’s release was an encouragement to all political prisoners including Liu, but observers do not see it influencing Beijing.
“I can’t imagine that there will be an impact,” said Ian Holliday, a professor of political science at the University of Hong Kong.
“At any rate China will make its own calculations based on its own stability situation... and it won’t really care what the United States or others think.”.... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101119com6.html
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