Support for Nobel Peace Prize winner
Jailed Chinese writer and civil rights activist Liu Xiaobo has been awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. China’s government is not pleased. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Chinese novelist, Diane Wei-Liang, about what she thinks has inspired this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner to challenge the Chinese government’s human rights record. The novelist herself is a veteran of the pro-democracy movement in China.
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