“The [Chinese] people’s wishes for and needs for democracy and freedom are irresistible.” Fighting words, indeed. They could quite easily have come from Liu Xiaobo, the Chinese activist serving an 11-year prison sentence for subversion who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in recognition of his long record of calling for gradual political change. Instead, they were spoken by Wen Jiabao, China’s premier, in an interview he gave last week to CNN before the Nobel announcement.
「（中國）人民對民主自由的訴求是不可抗拒的。」的確是相當激進的話語吧。它們完全可能來自劉曉波，一名因「煽動顛覆國家政權罪」正在服11年徒刑的中國社運人士，上週五他被授予諾貝兒和平獎，以表彰他爲呼籲漸進式政治改革而作出的長期努力。但其實，這是上週諾貝兒獎宣佈之前，中國總理溫家寶接受美國CNN採訪時說的話。
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