Why Argentina's President Really Can't Afford to Mock China
The president of Argentina apparently forgot that it's not smart to make fun of the people who are bailing out your country
The Tweet That’s Drawing Heat
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Next time, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner might want to listen to her doctors.
The Argentine president, already mired in a furor at home over the mysterious death of a prosecutor who had accused her of graft, posted a message on Twitter during her visit to Beijing that mimicked a stereotypical Chinese accent, asking about "lice" instead of "rice" and "petloleum" rather than petroleum. It tuns out that Fernandez went to China even though her physicians had told her not to travel because of her bum ankle, according to the official China Daily newspaper. She told her hosts she could barely walk before her visit.