US National Endowment for Democracy (NED) has announced to present the 2014 "Democracy Award" to two Chinese prisoners Liu Xiaobo and Xu Zhiyong and the ceremony will be held later this week. Some overseas anti-China forces have been whooping up the political turmoil at the Tian'anmen Square 25 years ago by initiating various "commemorative activities." The NED has laboriously racked its brain to present the "Democracy Award" to Liu and Xu at the end of May.

Liu and Xu are not quite well-known among ordinary Chinese people because what they have done is inconsistent with the core concerns of the general public. They have long separated themselves from China's mainstream society and played with fire within the marginalized area.

They were jailed for violating Chinese laws because they are keen to demonstrate their confrontation against the existing national institutions. Both Liu and Xu deem their conducts as "brave" and "divine" and have won the support of a minority at home. Liu won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010 and Xu has also been given awards by the West in recent years.

The court's verdict on Liu and Xu involved enormous information conveyed by China's legal system and mainstream society. And we can define the nature of their conducts via a simpler way after recognizing their supporters. The Nobel Committee is notorious for playing tricks and the NED's award-presenting decision this year offers a more articulate interpretation in this connection.

Established in 1983 at the peak of the Cold War, the NED was a new form of leverage particularly designed by the government of Ronald Reagan to supplement the role of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Its fund is allocated directly by the US government and all its programs serve the US national interests. It once helped Uyghur separatist Rebiya Kadeer settle down in the US. Alan Weinstein, one of the founders of the NED, explained in 1991, "A lot of what we [NED] do was done 25 years ago covertly by the CIA."

Against the backdrop of China's unprecedented rise, a myriad of ideologically-related awards have been presented by the US and Western Europe to Chinese candidates more and more frequently. However, they have chosen opponents of China's current institutions instead of those who made a positive contribution to national development.

Political dissidents have forged an alliance with Western forces in the name of "universal values." As the increasingly powerful Beijing is mired in a geopolitical gridlock with Washington, such an alliance further facilitates the West in winning the game.

During the past 25 years, dissidents who have confronted China's political system through illegal means have been doomed and even Western endorsement could not turn the tide. China will enjoy better development in the future and they will continue being regarded as losers.

It would be both useless and shameful to lay a curse upon the motherland in exchange for their personal  fortune.