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“You cannot make your political system very appealing to global public opinion when you have a Nobel Peace Prize winner in prison and his wife under house arrest.”
Nicholas Bequelin, Hong-Kong based researcher for Human Rights Watch, about China's soft power being undermined by Liu Xiaobo's Nobel Peace Prize, in "Changes seens as unlikely as China's ruling elite gather," October 14th, the New York Times.

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－ 你知道刘晓波上个星期得了诺贝尔和平奖吗？

－ 我不知道你说的这件事情

- Did you hear that Liu Xiaobo received the Nobel Peace Prize last week?
- I don't know what you are talking about...

My friend is Chinese, he lives in Shanghai, so I am not that surprised. But still...