In several tweets over the subsequent days, Locsin apologized to Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi and said he was provoked by the latest grossest territorial violation. Meanwhile, Duterte s spokesman Harry Roque reportedly said the Philippine president has reminded officials that profanity has no place in diplomacy.
Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Wang Wenbin responded to Locsin s outburst in a Tuesday statement, saying that facts have proven time and time again that megaphone diplomacy can only undermine mutual trust rather than change reality.
But Beijing also has a track record of firing insults at other countries.
Such aggressive tactics by Chinese diplomats have in recent years increasingly played out on social media platforms such as Twitter, which is blocked on the mainland. Observers dubbed those tactics wolf warrior diplomacy, taking after a series of hugely popular movies where Chinese fighters defeat adversaries globally.
In several tweets over the subsequent days, Locsin apologized to Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi and said he was provoked by the latest grossest territorial violation. Meanwhile, Duterte s spokesman Harry Roque reportedly said the Philippine president has reminded officials that profanity has no place in diplomacy.
Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Wang Wenbin responded to Locsin s outburst in a Tuesday statement, saying that facts have proven time and time again that megaphone diplomacy can only undermine mutual trust rather than change reality.
But Beijing also has a track record of firing insults at other countries.
Such aggressive tactics by Chinese diplomats have in recent years increasingly played out on social media platforms such as Twitter, which is blocked on the mainland. Observers dubbed those tactics wolf warrior diplomacy, taking after a series of hugely popular movies where Chinese fighters defeat adversaries globally.
The Philippines has rejected an annual summer fishing ban imposed by China in the disputed South China Sea and encouraged its boats to keep fishing in the country’s territorial waters, as Manila reported on Wednesday the latest incursions of Chinese vessels on its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).
The fishing moratorium imposed by China since 1999 runs from May 1 to August 16 and covers areas of the South China Sea as well as other waters off China.
“This fishing ban does not apply to our fishermen,” the Philippines’ South China Sea task force said in a statement late on Tuesday.
The task force opposed China’s imposition of the ban over the areas within the territory and jurisdiction of the Philippines, adding “our fisherfolk are encouraged to go out and fish in our waters in the WPS (West Philippine Sea).”