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Taiwan minister says Singapore the size of a booger and Chinese balls huggers.

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http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1596152,00.html

Taipei - Taiwan Foreign Minister Chen Tan-sun has sparked an outcry after he derisively described Singapore as "a country the size of a booger", officials said on Tuesday.
Chen was responding to comments from Singapore Foreign Minister George Yeo, who had told the United Nations General Assembly that an independence drive by certain Taiwan groups would lead to war with mainland China.


An angry Chen, an advocate of the island's independence drive, fired a salvo at Yeo while meeting dozens of independence activists at the foreign ministry on Monday.
"Even a country the size of a booger brazenly criticised Taiwan and former president Lee Teng-hui in the United Nations," Chen said in Taiwanese dialect.

'Improper'


"It was nothing but an effort to embrace China's 'balls', forgive me using such a word," Chen said.
"What he (Yeo) said was to try to please China."
The remarks drew widespread criticism, with critics warning that ties with Singapore could be damaged.
"It is improper to term another country as a 'booger' (United States slang for dried nasal mucus)," said Chen Chien-ming, a parliamentarian from the Taiwan Solidarity Union, which is allied to the ruling Democratic Progressive Party..
 
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