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Friday, 01 March, 2013, 12:00am UPDATED : Friday, 01 March,
2013, 3:32am  A free Liu Xiaobo will be less of a headache for
Beijing   It helped him win a Nobel Prize, which in turn
attracted more supporters around the world and put China's human
rights record in the spotlight. The nation justifiably takes
pride in its culture, rapid rise and glowing influence, but
being the only country in the world that is keeping a Nobel
peace laureate in jail runs counter to its great aspirations.
Now, another global campaign to free Liu is under way - launched
by no less a world figure and fellow Nobel laureate as
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and already signed by hundreds of
thousands of people. Predictably, it has become a rallying cry
for Hong Kong's pan-democrats and those who oppose the central
government.  Tutu is no China basher. At the same time as the
campaign's launch, Tutu wrote to denounce the US hi-tech drone
assassination programme. His even-handed cr