孔子和平獎 Confucius Peace Prize

"Confusing Confucius Peace Prize Award Ceremony"

The Chinese authorities genuinely miffed by so many countries attending Liu Xiaobo 劉曉波 Nobel Prize Award ceremony in Oslo decided to have their own ceremony celebrating their own "small" Peace Confucius Prize. The problem is that it looks more like a Who Wants to Be a Star contest organized by Hunan Television with the difference that, this time, young Chinese people did not get the opportunity to vote for the winner on their mobile phones. I'm not sure Confucius would have approved.

Wikipedia said that this prize was created by "a non-government-related organization within the People's Republic of China in response to a proposal by business person Liu Zhiqin."
The recipient Lien Chan 連戰 did not attend. Instead, an anonymous little girl is holding the trophy. While a dapper young man is holding the prize money in small bills to the value of ¥100,000 RMB (US$ 15,000). No wonder Lien Chan did not attend!

Mainland Affairs Council Chairwoman Lai Shin-yuan 賴幸媛 in Taipei said that the Taiwanese government found this "amusing." Obviously, a better sense of humour than China's spokesperson for Foreign Affairs, Jiang Yu 姜瑜. But with such funny material everybody can be a comedian.


I really feel for the seemingly bewildered little girl holding the trophy.