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发帖数: 24893 | 1 A Nobel Prize for Hong Kong
Editorial of The New York Sun | October 7, 2014
Is there a minimum age for winning the Nobel Prize for Peace? We ask because
of the astounding events that are unfolding at Hong Kong. They are being
led by a young student with — as William McGurn pointed out on Mary Kissel
’s broadcast for the Wall Street Journal — thick spectacles and a bowl
haircut. He’s risking his own life to emerge at the head of a protest
seeking to claim for his generation their future rights. He’s Joshua Wong,
17 years old. How can he be so much wiser than all the so-called adults in
communist China?
It’s not just the communists. Fifty-nine financial leaders have reportedly
just signed a letter to the protestors. “Disrupting the social order of
Hong Kong is not helpful to the development and discussion of the political
reforms,” they harrumphed. “Nor would it solve any problem.” Among the
signatories, according to the South China Morning Post, are some of the most
powerful bankers in the city. “If the situation continues to worsen, the
success made after the hard work and efforts of generations of Hong Kong
people would go down to the drain. The victims will be Hong Kong people.”
What balderdash. If the people of Hong Kong will be the “victims” of this
trouble, who is the perpetrator? Not the protestors, for sure. They are
peaceful, middle-class youths (and no doubt some who are upper class and
lower class) seeking to redeem promises that Red China made by binding
international treaty, on file with the United Nations. Democracy. Mr. McGurn
pointed out that this is nothing like the “Occupy” protests that struck
in New York. They were a Marxist movement, like the democracy-denying
communists in Beijing. The communists are the threat to Hong Kong’s people.
The financiers’ letter reminds us of the notorious statement in the 1980s
by Thomas Thebald, head of international banking for Citibank. It was the
time when bank lending to communist Poland and other regimes in the Soviet
bloc were being uncovered and were emerging as a political issue. “Who
knows what political system works,” Mr. Theobald said. “The only test we
care about is: Can they pay their bills.” The cynicism — not to say
ignorance — of the statement shocked America’s intelligentsia, among
others, as the Reagan revolution was gathering steam.
It’s a footnote to this story — but an important one — that the Wall
Street Journal is in the thick of it across two generations. It is the
journalistic tribune whose motto is “free people and free markets.” The
message was taken into Asia in 1976 via its Asian Wall Street Journal, its
first overseas edition (Its visionary editor, Peter Kann, ended up as
chairman of the home company). It was a time when the establishment mantra
was build the economy first and political freedom will follow. It was a
invitation to tyranny.
What the Journal stressed is this: There is no difference — none — between
economic freedom and political freedom. They are the same thing, the warp
and woof in the fabric of freedom. This is not a Republican or a Democratic
point. One of the best articulations of the principle was President Jimmy
Carter, who, speaking at Notre Dame, declared: “The great democracies are
not free because we are strong and prosperous. I believe we are strong and
influential and prosperous because we are free.” It’s one of those
mysteries how 17-year-old Joshua Wong can grasp this point when his elders
can’t. But we say give him the Nobel Prize. He’s earned it. | l********g
发帖数: 6760 | 2 真拿奖了，应该捐给我们海外皿晕组织，作为活动经费。
因为那时集体荣誉！ | p****t
发帖数: 11416 | 3 诺贝尔奖只有理科那几个还有些价值，其他都是joke
because
Kissel
,
【在 S*********g 的大作中提到】
: A Nobel Prize for Hong Kong
: Editorial of The New York Sun | October 7, 2014
: Is there a minimum age for winning the Nobel Prize for Peace? We ask because
: of the astounding events that are unfolding at Hong Kong. They are being
: led by a young student with — as William McGurn pointed out on Mary Kissel
: ’s broadcast for the Wall Street Journal — thick spectacles and a bowl
: haircut. He’s risking his own life to emerge at the head of a protest
: seeking to claim for his generation their future rights. He’s Joshua Wong,
: 17 years old. How can he be so much wiser than all the so-called adults in
: communist China?
| S*********g
发帖数: 24893 | 4 黄之锋的鼻子被共党特务凿了一个洞，老将怎么看？
【在 l********g 的大作中提到】
: 真拿奖了，应该捐给我们海外皿晕组织，作为活动经费。
: 因为那时集体荣誉！
| W********g
发帖数: 346 | 5 这个和李敖当年为选呆湾的伪总统搞的提名一路货色吧，李大湿多年后承认这玩意就是
个自由报名，炸药奖设有hornorable mention这个乐西。
because
Kissel
,
【在 S*********g 的大作中提到】
: A Nobel Prize for Hong Kong
: Editorial of The New York Sun | October 7, 2014
: Is there a minimum age for winning the Nobel Prize for Peace? We ask because
: of the astounding events that are unfolding at Hong Kong. They are being
: led by a young student with — as William McGurn pointed out on Mary Kissel
: ’s broadcast for the Wall Street Journal — thick spectacles and a bowl
: haircut. He’s risking his own life to emerge at the head of a protest
: seeking to claim for his generation their future rights. He’s Joshua Wong,
: 17 years old. How can he be so much wiser than all the so-called adults in
: communist China?
| m***a
发帖数: 2262 | 6 《纽约太阳报》08年就停刊了，现在就剩个网站，基本上跟买买提一个级别的，流量还
小。
because
Kissel
,
【在 S*********g 的大作中提到】
: A Nobel Prize for Hong Kong
: Editorial of The New York Sun | October 7, 2014
: Is there a minimum age for winning the Nobel Prize for Peace? We ask because
: of the astounding events that are unfolding at Hong Kong. They are being
: led by a young student with — as William McGurn pointed out on Mary Kissel
: ’s broadcast for the Wall Street Journal — thick spectacles and a bowl
: haircut. He’s risking his own life to emerge at the head of a protest
: seeking to claim for his generation their future rights. He’s Joshua Wong,
: 17 years old. How can he be so much wiser than all the so-called adults in
: communist China?
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