NORWAY-CHINA-PEACE-NOBEL-LIU XIAOBO

Director of the Nobel Peace Institute Geir Lundestad (R) and the Nobel Peace Prize committee (L to R) Thorbjoern Jagland, Kaci Kullmann Five, Sissel Marie Roenbeck, Inger-Marie Ytterhorn and Aagot Valle are seated beside the vacant chair reserved for the ceremony's Nobel Laureate and dissident Liu Xiaobo at the city hall in Oslo, on December 10, 2010. With the guest of honour stuck in a Chinese prison, this year's Nobel Peace Prize ceremony centred around an empty chair, as its celebration of dissident Liu Xiaobo continues to split the global community and infuriate Beijing. AFP PHOTO/ODD ANDERSEN (Photo by Odd ANDERSEN / AFP) (Photo by ODD ANDERSEN/AFP via Getty Images)