If Mr. Trump does negotiate a peace agreement with Kim Jun Un, it seems likely that the American president will be the first recipient since 2017 when the award went to the President of Cambodia.
- 2010 – Lien Chan
- 2011 – Vladimir Putin
- 2012 – Kofi Annan and Yuan Longping
- 2013 – Yicheng
- 2014 – Fidel Castro
- 2015 – Robert Mugabe[44]
- 2016 – Shen Liangliang (申亮亮), Yang Shupeng (杨树朋), and Li Lei (李磊)[45]
- 2017 – Hun Sen
The Confucius Peace Prize originated as a response to the announcement that Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo had won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. According to The New York Times, Liu Zhiqin, a prominent Chinese scholar and banker, was the first to propose the prize, in a commentary in the Global Times. Liu’s commentary stated, “The Nobel Peace Prize Committee won Liu Xiaobo while losing the trust of 1.3 billion Chinese people. They support a criminal while creating 1.3 billion ‘dissidents’ that are dissatisfied with the Nobel Committee, which is definitely a bad decision. … China’s civil society should consider setting up a ‘Confucius Peace Prize’, launching the evaluation and selection and finding the real Peace Prize winners from all over the world. This is the best opportunity for the Chinese to declare China’s view in peace and human rights to the world.”
Meanwhile, Mr. Kim seem unimpressed by Mr. Trump’s talent as a peace monger.