"A Communist Party-affiliated Chinese newspaper berated U.S. senators Sunday for passing a bill to
rename of the street in front of the Chinese Embassy in Washington in honor of a jailed Chinese dissident, describing those responsible as “vile characters.”
The bill to name the street for Liu Xiaobo, the 2010 Nobel peace prize winner, passed unanimously Friday. It was introduced by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), and co-sponsored by Cruz’ fellow Republican presidential hopeful Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.).
The alteration will change the embassy’s official address from 3505 International Place to 1 Liu Xiaobo Plaza, meaning the name of the reviled dissident will appear on mail received by the mission.
Liu, a writer jailed after the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, was arrested again in 2008 after he helped to draft a manifesto, Charter 08, advocating peaceful political reform in China." CNS
The bill to name the street for Liu Xiaobo, the 2010 Nobel peace prize winner, passed unanimously Friday. It was introduced by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), and co-sponsored by Cruz’ fellow Republican presidential hopeful Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.).
The alteration will change the embassy’s official address from 3505 International Place to 1 Liu Xiaobo Plaza, meaning the name of the reviled dissident will appear on mail received by the mission.
Liu, a writer jailed after the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, was arrested again in 2008 after he helped to draft a manifesto, Charter 08, advocating peaceful political reform in China." CNS
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