Bill Gates nominated for alternative Chinese peace prize
Former UN chief Kofi Annan, Thailand’s prime minister and Microsoft
founder Bill Gates are among those nominated for a Chinese alternative
“peace prize.”
Organizers of the Confucius Peace Prize announced the nominees
Sunday. Last year, the accolade went to Russia’s Vladimir Putin for
crushing anti-government forces in Chechnya.
The award’s sponsors are professors and academics who say they are independent of the Chinese government.
The nominees are former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, his
successor Ban Ki-moon, Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, Bill
Gates, Chinese social activist Wang Dingguo, Peking University Prof.
Tang Yijie, Chinese scientist Yuan Longping and the 11th Panchen Lama.
The Panchen Lama is the second-highest religious leader for Tibetans
after the Dalai Lama. Most Tibetans don’t accept him because Beijing
appointed him.
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