All we are saying is give peace a chance

THE NOMINATION of three Hong Kong activists for the Nobel Peace Prize by a group of US congressmen has put the cat among the pigeons. The trio - Joshua Wong, Nathan Law and Alex Chow - much in the news for having served time in jail for their role in the 2014 Umbrella Movement and the storming of the government's Tamar offices, were cited as "champions of peace and freedom and Hong Kong's entire pro-democracy movement".

Signed by, among others, Marco Rubio, the Republican senator who ran for president in 2016, this first nomination for a…