{"id":122315,"date":"2017-10-09T03:37:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T07:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=122315"},"modified":"2017-10-09T03:37:12","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T07:37:12","slug":"philippines-says-sorry-to-china-over-wrong-taiwan-logo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/09\/philippines-says-sorry-to-china-over-wrong-taiwan-logo\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippines says sorry to China over wrong Taiwan logo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: The department said, \u201cIt is our sincere hope that this very unfortunate incident will not affect the co-operative and friendly relations between our two countries.\u201d (Photo:<\/a> Philippines Defense Forces Forum\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA,\u00a0Philippines\u00a0\u2013 The\u00a0Philippine\u00a0defence department has apologized to China for the “grievous but purely unintentional mistake” of using Taiwan’s defence ministry logo during a ceremony where the Chinese ambassador turned over assault rifles to the\u00a0Filipino\u00a0defence chief and top military commanders.<\/p>\n

The Department of Defence of Manila said Monday that its chief, Secretary Delfin Lorenzana, issued an official apology to China through Beijing’s ambassador over the “technical lapse” in last week’s ceremony at military headquarters.<\/p>\n

The department stressed that it and the military adhere to the “One China policy,”\u00a0 wherein the\u00a0Philippine\u00a0government recognizes only the People’s Republic of China as the sole sovereign state.<\/p>\n

The department said, \u201cIt is our sincere hope that this very unfortunate incident will not affect the co-operative and friendly relations between our two countries.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MANILA,\u00a0Philippines\u00a0\u2013 The\u00a0Philippine\u00a0defence department has apologized to China for the “grievous but purely unintentional mistake” of using Taiwan’s defence ministry logo …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":89277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,95],"tags":[26751,26750,20282],"class_list":["post-122315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-ph","tag-philippine-defense-department","tag-philippines-says-sorry-to-china-over-wrong-taiwan-logo","tag-secretary-delfin-lorenzana","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}