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Beijing poured scorn yesterday on a US Congress bid to rename the street in front of China’s embassy in Washington after a jailed activist.
The house appropriations committee included a proposal in its 2015 budget to rename the road Liu Xiaobo Plaza, after a Nobel laureate serving 11 years on a subversion charge.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying slammed the bid as “nothing more than a sheer farce.”
She said some in the US were trying to smear China by “meaninglessly hyping the so-called human rights issue and the case of Liu Xiaobo.”
The Republican representative said the change would highlight Mr Liu’s “unjust imprisonment.”
