China Is a "Bully" McCain says

John McCain

Arizona Republican Senator John McCain, hired for a speaking engagement in Sydney, Australia, on Tuesday, portrayed China's foreign policy moves as that of a schoolyard tormentor.

Critical of foreign policy moves by the administration of US President Donald Trump, McCain also suggested that China was engaged in intellectual theft, illegal territory annexation and economic coercion, the Hill reported.

"The challenge is that as China has grown wealthier and stronger, it seems to be acting more and more like a bully," McCain remarked at the US Studies Center at the University of Sydney, cited by Australia's 9news.au.

"It is refusing to open more of its economy so that foreign businesses can compete fairly," McCain said. "It is stealing other people's intellectual property. It is asserting vast territorial claims that have no basis in international law. And...