WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz has called for the renaming of a plaza outside the Chinese embassy in Washington, D.C., after a Chinese Nobel peace laureate. But Beijing's state media condemned the proposal, calling it an insult.
"The apparently provocative move intends to outrage and unsettle China," China's populist tabloid Global Times stated in an editorial Sunday, Radio Free Asia reported.