China on offensive over Nobel award ceremony

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BEIJING, Dec 9 (AFP): China launched Thursday a final salvo ahead of a ceremony honouring Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo, calling US lawmakers "arrogant" for supporting him and saying most of the world opposes the move.
The fresh round of criticism, which also targeted the Oslo-based Nobel committee, comes on the eve of a ceremony in the Norwegian capital honouring Liu, who was jailed in December 2009 for 11 years on subversion charges.
Earlier this week, Jiang referred to the members of the committee as "clowns" and accused them of "orchestrating an anti-China fuss".