China: Jailed Nobel Peace Prize Winner No Mandela

A Chinese Communist Party-run paper is slamming comparisons between late South African anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela and China's jailed activist Liu Xiaobo. In the wake of Mandela's death last week, some Western commentators and Chinese social media users have criticized Beijing for praising the former South African leader a while cracking down on its own dissidents, such as Liu. Some commentators have also noted similarities between the two Nobel Peace Prize winners,...

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