Vice Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai reinforced that critique, calling the prize a "highly politicized event" and telling foreign countries they had a stark choice between challenging China's judicial system and developing friendly relations with Beijing, The Associated Press reported.
The GOP presidential nominee had faced widespread criticism earlier in the week for prematurely politicizing the events and misstating the facts.
Politicizing the event has resulted in its cancellation and perhaps the end of literary events at the White House.
To avoid politicizing the event, the organizers decided not to allow anyone to hold signs, but distributed yellow ribbons to commemorate the victims.
For the most part, the Democrats have been avoiding making any kind of appearances that might risk their being criticized for politicizing the event.
Conservatives, including Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, have made clear they will not tolerate anyone "politicizing" an event meant to honor Palestinian suffering.
So naturally, he tweeted an unhinged video featuring the 9/11 attack — politicizing the event about which he was so offended, supposedly.
But we shouldn't shy away about talking about gun laws right now, or be cowed into not "politicizing" an event that has become so horribly commonplace that there's no way not to politicize it.
Organizers said they would refrain from giving interviews about the demonstration, to avoid further politicizing the event.
I have created a narrative that does not politicize these events, but allows us to see the common humanity not only in these characters, but in the parallels that are present in today's global society".
Even here, though, there is room to debate what "operative" means — and, in any event, 10percentt of people politicizing an issue on Twitter may not be entirely shocking to anyone who spends time on Twitter.
