By CONSUELO MARQUEZ, GMA News
Published May 4, 2021 6:21pm
Updated May 4, 2021 7:00pm The Chinese Ministry on Foreign Affairs on Tuesday said a certain individual in the Philippine government should mind his manners and act in a way that suited his status. Foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin made the remark a day after Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. told China to get the f k out of the Philippine waters. Facts have proven time and time again that megaphone diplomacy can only undermine mutual trust rather than change reality, Wenbin said in response to Locsin s insulting remarks on his personal social media account.
Of fishing boats and fishing votes Mauro Gia Samonte
The media continue to sizzle with the Julian Felipe Reef controversy, and it has begun to vex me no end.
Bobi Tiglao calls the narrative of Chinese maritime militia ships intruding into Philippine territory a hoax. An innocent story in my tabloid, Pwersa, narrates a meeting between the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and the Philippine military in which the Chinese had clarified the mooring of those ships as taking refuge from bad weather and assured their Philippine counterparts that those vessels would leave when the weather cleared. But a few dozen stayed behind to resume fishing. And this is where Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana and Foreign Affairs Secretary Teddy Boy Locsin Jr. made mountains out of molehills, calling the event aggression.
DFA files anew two diplomatic protests over 200 Chinese militia vessels at WPS By CONSUELO MARQUEZ, GMA News
Published April 14, 2021 4:31pm
Updated April 14, 2021 5:09pm The Philippines on Wednesday filed anew two diplomatic protests after the government found over 200 Chinese militia vessels lingering at the West Philippine Sea (WPS), Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said. Fired it off. Beautifully written but you will never see it because I’m like that. Annoying. Only Senate and House foreign relations, Locsin said in a tweet, refusing to disclose the contents of the diplomatic protest. GMA reporter JP Soriano said the Department of Foreign Affairs sent two diplomatic protests.
Published April 8, 2021 5:39pm President Rodrigo Duterte s inaction and silence on China s continued incursion in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) showed a betrayal of millions of Filipinos, coalition 1Samabayan said Thursday. In a statement, the newly-formed coalition, composed of pro-democracy groups and personalities in the Philippines, said strong remarks from Congress, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana and Foreign Affairs Secretary Teddy Boy Locsin Jr. against China will be glaringly weakened without similar action from Duterte. We urge President Duterte to abandon his pivot to China, summon the courage to assert our victory in the Arbitral Award, resolutely defend our sovereign territory and sovereign rights, and chart a truly independent foreign policy that gives primacy to safeguarding our sovereign territory and sovereign rights, 1Sambayan, a coalition led by former Chief Justice Antonio Carpio, said in its Araw ng Kagitingan message.
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