FILE - Nobel Committee chairman Thorbjorn Jagland sits next to an empty chair with the Nobel Peace Prize medal and diploma during a ceremony honoring Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo in Oslo, Norway, on Dec. 10, 2010. The U.S. State Department has set up an eight-person team known as the "firm" to provide help to countries cut off from Chinese trade. In one example, when the committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo, Beijing stopped buying salmon from the Nordic country. (AP Photo/John McConnico, File)