China has lashed out at European Union, United States and United
Nations over criticisms accusing it of denying Nobel laureate Liu
Xiaobo’s dying wish to leave the country for medical treatment of his
advanced liver cancer.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said Beijing lodged official
protests with the United States, France, Germany and the United Nations
human rights office over their “irresponsible remarks” regarding Liu
Xiaobo.
Geng also challenged Liu’s Nobel status.
“Conferring the prize to such a person goes against the purposes of
this award. It’s a blasphemy of the peace prize,” he told reporters.
The United States and the European Union paid tribute to Liu Xiaobo
as it urged President Xi Jinping’s government to let his widow, the poet
Liu Xia, who has been under house arrest since 2010, leave the country.
Germany voiced regret that Beijing ignored its offer to host Liu
while French President Emmanuel Macron remembered him as a “freedom
fighter”. Britain hit out at China for preventing Liu from travelling
overseas for treatment.
The UN human rights commissioner, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, said Liu “was jailed for standing up for his beliefs”.
While China lodged protests, some of the global reaction to his death
was relatively muted, highlighting China’s emergence as an economic and
diplomatic superpower on the world stage.
US President Donald Trump and Macron offered praise for Xi at a joint
press conference in Paris and only voiced sadness for Liu later in
statements.
In a sign of China’s growing confidence, the state-controlled Global
Times newspaper said in an English-language editorial that “the West has
bestowed upon Liu a halo, which will not linger”.
Meanwhile attention has turned to Liu’s widow.
Chinese doctors said she was by her husband’s side when he lost his
battle with liver cancer on Thursday at age 61, more than a month after
he was transferred from prison to a hospital in the northeastern city of
Shenyang.
Liu’s main doctor said he was able to say goodbye to his 56-year-old wife and in his final moments told her to “live well”.
But authorities have restricted her contact with the outside world
and her whereabouts were unknown following the death of her husband, a
veteran of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests whose advocacy for
democratic reform infuriated the government.
*AFP
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