China slams EU Commissioner's 'slitty eyes' comment

BEIJING: China expressed disdain Wednesday over European Commissioner Guenther Oettinger's use of the term "slitty eyes" to describe Chinese people in a leaked recording of a speech to business leaders.

In the comments, secretly filmed at a Hamburg event earlier this month, Oettinger—the commissioner for digital economy who was last week named to the more powerful post of budget commissioner—mocked a delegation of Chinese ministers for having "their hair combed from left to right with shoe polish".