Far from apologizing for her brutal phrase “they are Chinese, they are all the same,” the chancellor Diana Mondino He came out to say that he did not say what they said he said but that what he meant was that the Chinese who were at the space base in Neuquén “they are all the same” because “they are all civilians”.
The absurd and childish excuse of the head of Argentine diplomacy took place in a hasty public reappearance during which he tried to downplay the scandal which provoked his sayings more typical of a comedian with discriminatory reminiscences.
“They are all equal, they are all civilians. Those who participated are all the same” in the visit to the Chinese station in Patagonia Argentina, Mondino said that is what she meant but that, always according to her, it was “misunderstood” by the journalist who interviewed her.
“We were talking about the visit to the space station, which was a few days ago, and what I highlighted was the civilian nature of the staff; that there were no uniforms. The Argentines were also all the same, none of them in uniform”, he stated as if trying to clean oil with oil.
During a radio interview, the chancellor tried this Friday morning to tone down the controversy unleashed – to make matters worse – hours before her meager visit to China to negotiate the swap that that country had agreed upon with Argentina.
According to her, all those who were part of the delegation that visited that base in the province of Neuquén “We were in the same capacity as civilians, the argument surprises me”he insisted and minimized with a “But it does not matter”.
But that was not all. He also criticized the transcript of the interview that sparked the scandal: “If we want to do something openly misunderstood, we can. Part of the sentence may be missing, several things”He suggested.
Then he tried to go off on a tangent and maintained that what needs to be clear is “the importance of the visit to the space station,” because “that is what was being talked about.”
But “If we want to give everything that is said about China a bad word or something discriminatory… I mean that there was no one in uniform”closed and changed the subject.
