Fidel Castro Awarded China’s Confucius Prize and President Xi Named ‘Person of the Year 2014’ by Russia

Posted by david on Dec 11, 2014 in Blog | 0 comments

About time some institution honoured him, if only for surviving the more than 600 assassination attempts by the CIA.  Not to mention standing up to the Americans for over half a century and his people bearing the brunt of crippling trade sanctions.  The US should suspend the sanctions immediately as the UN General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly for (for the nth time) and start the process to normalize relations.  But, alas, that’s not going to happen any time soon given the ferocity of the fiercely anti-communist Cuban-American lobby in Florida.

Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro is this year’s winner of the Confucius Peace Prize, China’s alternative to the Nobel Prize. The committee that sponsors the prize praised 88-year-old Castro for peacefully resolving international conflicts. The Confucius prize was launched in 2010 as an alternative to the Nobel Peace Prize, Prior recipients include former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

– AP

Chinese President Xi Jinping was named as “Person of the Year 2014” by the Russian Biographical Institute for the “strengthening of economic and political ties with the Russia”, which reflects the rising influence of China and its leader. It is the first time the institute has given the award to a leader of a country that doesn’t belong to the Commonwealth of Independent States.

The Russian Biographical Institute, founded in 1992, is a nongovernmental and noncommercial organization based in Moscow. Its Person of the Year award acknowledges the recipients involved as being guided by the principles of social, spiritual and moral responsibility. In all, the institute handed out awards to 42 individuals, companies and institutions in areas including culture, science, charity, medicine and health, and national defense.

– China Daily