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Of late, China has had an abundance of headline problems: natural disasters, Kyoto, environmental degradation, gray market, along with property bubbles, and Japanese fishing rights friction, and it will be interesting to see how its latest human rights test will play out in front of the world community.

Few people in the West can even pronounce Xiaobao properly, let alone know who he is, yet mention human rights and everyone beyond the Great Wall will take notice

If nothing else, Liu restores respectability to the Nobel Prize that has been tarnished by the populist movements of recipients Al Gore and Barack Obama.