Liu Xiaobo, NED, CIA, USA Support

By Xah Lee. Date: . Last updated: .

It's widely reported on the web that Liu Xiaobo (2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner) received funding from National Endowment for Democracy (NED). This is acknowledged on the NED site:

The National Endowment for Democracy Extends Its Warmest Congratulations to Grantee Liu Xiaobo on Receiving the Nobel Peace Prize At http://www.ned.org/for-reporters/the-national-endowment-for-democracy-extends-its-warmest-congratulations-to-grantee-li

Quote:

Among his many contributions to the advance of democratic ideas and values in China have been his work as editor of Democratic China magazine (English via GoogleTranslate) for several years until his arrest in 2008, and serving two terms as President of the Independent Chinese PEN Center, from 2003 to 2007. NED is pleased to have been able to provide grant support to both organizations for their activities supporting free inquiry and freedom of expression over the years.

national endowment for democracy 2010-10-08 Liu Xiaobo
screenshot of site [http://www.ned.org/for-reporters/the-national-endowment-for-democracy-extends-its-warmest-congratulations-to-grantee-li] as of archived from http://web.archive.org/web/20101009040127/http://www.ned.org/for-reporters/the-national-endowment-for-democracy-extends-its-warmest-congratulations-to-grantee-li

How Much?

How much? The article didn't say, but from online info the figure may be over 1 million USD, perhaps from 2004 to 2007. It's very time consuming to gather correct info on the web, but on this site: http://blog.hiddenharmonies.org/2010/10/the-2010-nobel-peace-prize-to-liu-xiaobo-and-what-it-means-to-the-chinese/, there's this info:

All the links's content are gone as of , but they are currently available at the archive.org.

(2023-06-09 i've archived them as of 2023-06-09)

(be sure to save the document on your computer because it might get removed)

Looking at these doc is quite scary. Usually they have a big section China, listing lots of money to all sort of organizations that seems to be politically disruptive for Chinese goverment, e.g. Tibet, Uyghur, and all with names like “freedom”, “human rights”, “democracy”….

Liu's Support for US and War on Iraq

from Wikipedia Liu Xiaobo,

In his 1996 article titled “Lessons from the Cold War”, Liu argues that “The free world led by the US fought almost all regimes that trampled on human rights … The major wars that the US became involved in are all ethically defensible.” He has defended U.S. policies in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, which he thinks is the fault of the “provocateur” Palestinians.[25]

Liu also published a 2004 article in support of Bush's war on Iraq, titled “Victory to the Anglo-American Freedom Alliance”, in which he praised the U.S.-led post-Cold War conflicts as “best examples of how war should be conducted in a modern civilization.” He predicted “a free, democratic and peaceful Iraq will emerge.”[26] During the 2004 US presidential election, Liu again praised Bush for his war effort against Iraq and condemned Democratic Party candidate John Kerry for not sufficiently supporting the wars in which the U.S. was then involved. He commented on Islamism that, “a cul­ture and (reli­gious) sys­tem that pro­duced this kind of threat (Islamic fundamentalism), must be extremely intol­er­ant and blood-thirsty.” On Israel, he said “with­out America's pro­tec­tion, the long per­se­cuted Jews who faced exter­mi­na­tion dur­ing World War II, prob­a­bly would again be drowned by the Islamic world's hatred.”[27][25]

The citations [25][26][27] are:

Liu Xiaobo Barry Sautman Hairong Yan 2010
Do supporters of Nobel winner Liu Xiaobo really know what he stands for? By Barry Sautman, Hairong Yan. At http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/dec/15/nobel-winner-liu-xiaobo-chinese-dissident

Note: as of , top results of Google Search on Liu Xiaobo essays above are Falun Gong front group, such as Epoch Times or boxun.com.

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