Leaders in Beijing Feared Arab Spring Could Infect China

“They’re going to limit this as much as possible — identify the main tumor, excise it and move on,” said Orville Schell, director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society in New York. “They’re not going to go into a mass purge if they can avoid it, because everyone at the top leadership has a complex web of connections.”

via Leaders in Beijing Feared Arab Spring Could Infect China – Bloomberg.