Chinas first Nobel Peace Prize.

Imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo was chosen as this years laureate. The peace prize will be awarded along with $15,000. China has been responding furiously since the decision was made on October 8th. They feel that Liu Xiabo, who has been imprisoned for eleven years for "inciting subversion", is a criminal and shouldn't be receiving this award. Liu Zhiqin, a government spokesman, says that awarding a criminal a nobel peace prize, has created over 1.3 billion dissidents within china. China has warned other countries of the consequences attending this years event because there are going to be a hundred countries and chinese people boycotting. The nobel committee has sent out sixty five invitations to other countries, so far nineteen of the invites have been declined.