Nobel decision motivated by Cold War thinking

BEIJING - Nobel Committee Chairman Thorbjorn Jagland recently published a signed article entitled "Why We Gave Liu Xiaobo a Nobel" in the New York Times.

This is so far the most complete explanation that the committee has made since the international community condemned its decision to confer the Nobel Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo, a convicted criminal in China.

But the explanation was filled with Jagland's fallacious arguments and distortions.