McCain ruffles Beijing with talk of Chinese Arab Spring

4 February 2012, 7:19 am

MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) - U.S. Senator John McCain warned China's Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun on Saturday that "the Arab Spring is coming to China" and highlighted the number of Tibetans burning themselves to death in his country. Zhang, speaking with McCain on a panel at the high-level Munich security conference, dismissed his comments about a looming Chinese Arab Spring as "no more ...... Read More »

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