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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/china-to-lead-mass-nobel-boycott.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="China is boycotting the Nobel Prize ceremony after the peace prize was given to Liu Xiaobo (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-china-to-lead-mass-nobel-boycott.jpg" alt="China is boycotting the Nobel Prize ceremony after the peace prize was given to Liu Xiaobo (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>China and 18 other countries will boycott this week&#8217;s Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in protest against the award going to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.</p>
<p>Chinese officials in Beijing called Liu&#8217;s backers &#8220;clowns&#8221; in an anti-Chinese farce &#8211; comments that came only three days before the ceremony in Oslo on Friday.</p>
<p>Beijing considers Liu&#8217;s recognition an attack on China&#8217;s political and legal system, and says the country&#8217;s policies will not be swayed by outside forces in what it calls &#8220;flagrant interference in China&#8217;s sovereignty&#8221;.</p>
<p>The Nobel committee said countries that have turned down an invitation to Friday&#8217;s ceremony include China&#8217;s allies &#8211; Pakistan, Venezuela and Cuba &#8211; Chinese neighbours such as Russia, the Philippines and Kazakhstan, and Chinese business partners such as Saudi Arabia and Iran.</p>
<p>At least 44 of the 65 embassies that were invited have accepted the invitation, the prize committee said.</p>
<p>The Chinese foreign ministry accused the Nobel committee of &#8220;orchestrating an anti-China farce by themselves&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8220;We are not changing because of interference by a few clowns and we will not change our path,&#8221; a spokeswoman said.</p>
<p>The tough talk came even as authorities were placing Liu&#8217;s supporters, including his wife Liu Xia, under house arrest and stopping numerous others such as lawyers, academics and activists from leaving the country &#8211; apparently to prevent them from travelling to Oslo for the award ceremony.</p>
<p>The comments were the latest in a series of furious attacks against Liu, the Nobel committee and other supporters. Beijing was enraged by the awarding of the prize to the 54-year-old democracy campaigner and literary critic and has sought to dissuade foreign diplomats from attending the award ceremony.</p>
<p>Nobel committee secretary Geir Lundestad said countries gave various reasons for not attending but &#8220;some of them are obviously affected by China.&#8221; He said the committee was pleased that as many as two-thirds of embassies had accepted the invitation despite Chinese pressure.</p>
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