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Chinese response to royal rudeness row: British media are narcissistic, mannerless barbarians
“President Xi Jinping’s state visit to the United Kingdom past year was very successful”.
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A spokeswoman from the Chinese Embassy in the United Kingdom branded the state visit a success, but made no direct mention of the monarch.
Ties between China and Britain will not be harmed by Queen Elizabeth being caught on camera saying Chinese officials were “very rude”, said an influential Chinese newspaper yesterday. “Both sides made great efforts towards the success of the visit”.
Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has admitted that the important visit “got a bit stressful on both sides”.
Britain’s government has been determined to boost trade with China as part of a “golden era” in ties, although rights groups have accused it of turning a blind eye to alleged abuses by Beijing.
A Chinese state-linked newspaper went on the attack on Thursday, branding Western media “gossip fiends and barbarians” for widely reported comments in which the Queen described Chinese officials as “very rude”.
According to the report, the Queen had initially called it “bad luck” for D’Orsi to be assigned as the one in charge of security during the Chinese delegates’ visit.
He told the Queen the officer had been “seriously undermined by the Chinese” in their handling of the visit, but added that she had managed to “hold her own”.
“I’m not sure whether you knew, but it was quite a testing time for me”, D’Orsi told the Queen.
Britian’s Queen Elizabeth II was overheard on camera calling members of Chinese delegations “very rude”, a rare diplomatic gaffe by the British monarch.
A Palace spokeswoman said: “We do not comment on the Queen’s private conversations”.
“However, the Chinese state visit was extremely successful and all parties worked closely to ensure it proceeded smoothly”, it insisted.
British Metropolitan Police and Buckingham Palace refused to comment on what they described as private conversations.
The incident first emerged in the Sunday Times last October, when a senior source revealed how “the bodyguard, or spy, attempted to get in the carriage and was prevented when it was ascertained by our security officials that he was actually a security official rather than the official translator”.
Had the sun been shining on Tuesday her majesty’s comments would not have surfaced. “There is a perception that the United Kingdom is an important enough trading and political partner that this sort of incident isn’t going to get in the way”, Professor Mitter said. But the news made its way to China’s social media.
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