© Albert Gea / ReutersGunther Oettinger, European Commissioner of Digital Science and Society
A video covertly taped by a Brussels journalist and leaked by anonymous YouTuber Sebas Travelling shows Oettinger referring to Chinese as"slant eyes" and "chiselers." Oettinger, who was promoted to the high post of EU budget commissioner last week, also made fun of how the Chinese allegedly have their "hair combed from left to right with shoe polish."
The newly minted commissioner's bizarre commentary prompted a sharp backlash from Beijing.
"The relevant remarks reveal a baffling sense of superiority entrenched in some Western politicians," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said, according to AFP. "We hope that they can learn how to view themselves and others objectively and respect and treat others as equals."
Nothing resembling an apology emerged from the EU minister, however. In a Die Welt interview on Saturday, he described his words as "a somewhat sloppy expression that was not meant in any way disrespectfully towards China."
On Wednesday, James Chrisp, a EurActiv.com news editor, asked Oettinger if he would perhaps consider expanding his words into an apology, but Oettinger would not condemn his comments, insisting that "Everything has been said. There is nothing to apologize for."
Chrisp tweeted Oettinger's responses, one of which blamed EurActiv and other media outlets for blowing the entire scandal out of proportion.
The conversation that the EurActiv journalist had been having with Oettinger on the street ended abruptly when the budget minister got into his car and drove off to the airport.
The scandal has been making waves in German political circles. Angela Merkel is said to have argued for giving Oettinger another chance, but the country's headlines have already begun calling him "racist and homophobic," and the head of the leftist Die Linke party, Dietmar Bartsch, has called on the German chancellor to "withdraw this man from Brussels."
The globalists have decided the only way to save capitalism is to realign and Russia has already been given the bum's rush. China has already planned to expand via the Silk Road so was not particularly upset when the cargo ships were dead in the water.
We shopping public have been given our marching orders as to buying by drone. From warehouses all across the country. Stocked from long haul trucks driven coast to coast. Loaded with cargo containers from ships docked at US ports. Sailed from across the ocean on diesel fuel furnished by global corporates. The excessive profits going to dot Cuba with cracker jack hotels. Puerto Rico has been turned inside out and upside down to empty the land so as not to impede the rush to turn it into the land of the US big pockets.
One would think that the visible evidence of good will which USED TO BE the American way might stand us in good stead. Like a desalt plant for Haiti that seems to lack even drinking water here on America's doorstep. If we can spare the 5 billion or so that occasionally goes missing every presidential election. That's a pittance compared to the escalating need of the military and its 10,000 overseas bases designed to preserve the general enlisted health as they enjoy the host country's air, clean water, non GMO food, fresh cuisine from the sea and land, low stress amid sunny relaxed vacation like surroundings.