Following the announcement of the award of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to incarcerated Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo , the Chinese tabloid '' Global Times '' created the Confucius Peace Prize . The award ceremony was deliberately organized to take place on 8 December , one day before the Nobel ceremony . Organizers said that the prize had no relation to the Chinese government , the Ministry of Culture or Beijing Normal University
2010 Nobel Peace Prize
2010 Nobel Peace Prize
Nobel Prize controversies