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(5) No "one-style-fits-all" political system suits all societies equally. Liu learned Western values at Columbia University, the University of Oslo, and University of Hawaii. However, China's history goes back thousands of years, its modern state a product of those times. As a result, it's arrogant, offensive, and mindless to expect Beijing to abandon its traditions for Western ones that disdain principles rhetorically endorsed.
In 2009, Chinese actor Jackie Chan notably said:
"I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. If you're too free, you're like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic. Taiwan is also chaotic. I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want."
(6) Western societies, especially America, have "no genuine interest in promoting the human rights of the Chinese people," or their own. Globally, in fact, they exploit other societies much like they do internally, and wage wars when other methods don't work.
Overall, "The West has no respect towards the ideas and values of the Non-West and has time and again indulged, since the modern era, in lecturing and dictating to other peoples (on how) to behave," either peacefully, subversively, or violently.
Western countries, especially America, fear China as a rival, apprehensive it will supplant their supremacy through a better model, much like Asian Tiger economies did until targeted in 1997-98 to become US satellites, exploiting them through foreign investments, weakening them in the process. China has lots such investments under its rules, not others.
(7) The award "perpetuate(s) the vicious cycle of mistrust between China" and the West, mainly America. As a result, it fuels "Chinese nationalism" and reinforces internal sentiment that China doesn't get the respect it deserves, whatever its faults.
At the least, the glass house analogy applies. More importantly, its history of Western colonization and dominance gives China justifiable reason to want more even-handed, stable relationships, and won't tolerate less. Bashing its policies won't help, nor is rewarding Liu, Beijing lashing out at the West in response.
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