Beijing blundered. This is funny.

Irked that jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace Prize, they created a competing award called The Confucius Peace Prize.

I’d be happy to accept the $15,000 cash prize and two Pandas. But they chose instead a Taiwanese Lien Chan for fostering relations with the motherland.

… Only problem, they seem to have forgotten to tell the winner.

Former Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) chairman Lien Chan’s (連戰) office yesterday dismissed a report by The Associated Press (AP) that Beijing had chosen him as the recipient of the Confucius Peace Award and would award him the prize today.

“We’ve never heard of such an award and of course Mr Lien has no plans to accept it,” said Ting Yuan-chao (丁遠超), director and spokesman of Lien’s office. …

Taipei Times