The state apparatus of the People's Republic of China continues its tirade against the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to jailed democracy activist Liu Xiaobo. On Thursday, an official organ of the ruling Communist Party focused its attack on all of Western civilization whose values are supposedly propagated by the Nobel committee.   China has adopted much Western wisdom since its opening-up. But it refuses to be westernized. The rejuvenation of the Chinese civilization is its dream. The more China learns from the West, the more confident it becomes in its own culture. A rising China with different fundamental principles disturbs the West, which is beleaguered in deep economic woes. A common line in Chinese commentary is that the economic crisis in America and Europe has revealed the superiority of Beijing's model of state capitalism and "socialism with Chinese characteristics." The Nobel Peace Prize is alleged to be a way for the West to strike back on...(Read Full Post)