China warns Western countries: Stay away from the Nobel ceremony, or else...

China's ambassador to Norway has written to Western missions implicitly warning them against attending an award ceremony in Oslo next month for Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo, diplomats said Friday.

"We have received a letter which explains the Chinese position and which asks us not to anything which could destabilise China," Olof Huldtgren, the deputy head of mission at the Swedish embassy in Oslo, told AFP.

"It does not explicitly say don't participate in the Nobel ceremony, but reading between the lines, the message is clear." More...

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