Liu Xiaobo Exclusive - China

Liu Xiaobo remains in prison on an 11 year charge for subversion. His wife was prevented from attending his Nobel peace prize award. In this, Liu Xiaobo's most recent interview, the man about to claim the Nobel peace prize discusses life under China's authoritarian regime.

"The driving force for positive change within the Chinese political system does not come from the top. It comes from the ordinary people and it's unstoppable". Xiaobo discusses humanitarian issues in Tibet and China, the Chinese governments harassment of his family, and the possibilities for democracy in China. "I'm the one who has brought fear into their hearts. So deep down I feel guilt but sometimes that can turn into fear". He also speaks about what he sees as the growing number of dissidents, like himself, willing to speak out against the Chinese government. "Doing the pro-democracy work I do, the fear of being sent to prison at any time. Doesn't actually scare me too much. If it did I wouldn't have been doing this work for the last 19 years".

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[crez1988]

@stencar1 fuk up u lil commie govt bitch, come at me cunt

[iwasboredas]

@stencar1 THE FUK R YOU TALKING ABOUT?

[stencar1]

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[FucckCCP]

支持刘晓波先生，中国一定能实现自由与民主！

[dadiyelang]

支持刘晓波！

[cassssspar]

I don't think he is honest in all communication.

[dackjack]

i didn't hear anything that he said that the chinese government isn't already trying. i for one don't believe private ownership is always best for a nation. also he sounds like early mao in some ways. also i don't like the fact that he isn't working with the chinese government. but in some ways against the government. protesting does more harm for the chinese government on a internation level. i am for protesting on a national level but once its gets to a international level.its bad for china.

[kalvinslove]

I am a chinese and now live in china I am agree with his ideas.but I dont know why I feel he isnt the honest . I agree with dalai , mayingjiu ,caiyingwen etc But Mr Liu in my mind isnt honest . though his words is truth. maybe I am a chinese

[TheTollundWoman]

@anaisjoelle

Try protesting illegal wiretapping in China, see what happens. there is NO MORAL EQUIVALENCY between a democracy like the US, and a dictatorship like the PRC. Churchill was a racist, imperialist hypocrite. I hope we can agree, however, that he was the lesser of two evils compared to Hitler.

[TheTollundWoman]

@anaisjoelle

Well how was it that in the 1940s, the US, a country that still instituted the blatantly racist "Jim Crow" system, was able to "scold other countries" for the Nuremburg Laws? How was it that the British, who were illegally occupying India, could "scold" the Germans for illegally occupying Poland? The Allies in WW2 were hypocrites too. But there is such a thing as the lesser of two evils.