Finally a Nobel Prize! Isn't it amazing? What we've all been waiting for? China gets to prove its rightful place in the world?! But wait, where are the fireworks? Where is the on-end media coverage? Oh, right... it was one of those Nobel Prizes, the Peace Prize, the goddamn thing the Dalai Lama already got (in 1989). Shit! Not another one of those! Can't we have a real Prize for once?
It would be funny, this quest driven by insecurity and pride, if the government would only completely ridicule itself by talking about Nobel Prizes non-stop right until the very second the Peace Prize is announced, just to completely drop the topic from any media coverage the second after. Also, blocking cell phones has a certain we're-used-to-this kind of charm, that's how we deal with these things here, right? But that people who (after agreeing to meet on twitter, I think) gathered to celebrate Liu Xiaobo's win were arrested (according to the German weekly Die Zeit), that's not funny anymore. It sends cold shivers down my spine to be reminded that amidst all the feel-good sinophilia, I do live under a cold-blooded regime that, no matter how funny their feeble attempts at playing world politics may seem, don't hesitate to brutally walk over corpses at times.
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