The award signals a clear and loud expression of "thinking" and intent, about the rise of China in influential sections of the West - don't be too surprised for the West to discover "human rights" with regard to diplomatic and commercial relations with China -- but my take is that such a signal, will fail and in fact reflects "last gasps" for a section of political opinion in the West - I say "last gasps" but in historic terms, 20 -30 years of clutching at straws is more like it.
But of course much depends on China's ability to calibrate it's responses to such provocations - and there will be many many more of them, in varied arenas, from Tibet, to Xinziang, to the growing numbers of Chinese with disposable income and those without, to pinpricks on oceans and landmass -- Steady, sure, economic and political development is something the entire world needs from China as she establishes herself as the measure of stability and justice in the world.