A Nobel soul takes on the dictators of a fast-rising superpower

THE awarding of the Nobel Peace prize to a brave Chinese human rights campaigner will hopefully aid the process of ridding China of the cruel and bloody dictatorship that has ruled the country for decades.

Liu Xiaobo is serving a lengthy jail term for drawing up a manifesto calling for much-need political reform in his homeland. Such democratic sentiment is deemed ‘subversion’ in China.

The reaction of the regime to the award offers a further insight into how it seeks to suppress not only any hint of resistance to its oppressive rule, but also any objective reporting of such opposition or dissent.