25 June 2014 Last updated at 12:02 ET
A picture of Liu Xiaobo seen inside the Nobel Peace Center on the day of The Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo 10 December 2010
Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010
The street holding the Chinese embassy in Washington DC could be renamed after a noted Chinese dissident.
An amendment attached to a state department budget bill would make the embassy’s address 1 Liu Xiaobo Plaza.
Liu Xiaobo, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, is serving an 11-year sentence for subversion in China.
The Chinese foreign ministry has called the proposed change of address – which now requires Congress approval – “nothing more than a sheer farce”.
Chinese embassy in Washington DC
Its current address is International Place
“Some people from the United States have used so-called human rights and the Liu Xiaobo case to engage in this meaningless sensationalism,” spokeswoman Hua Chunying told reporters.
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