{"id":184357,"date":"2018-10-05T21:56:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-06T01:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=184357"},"modified":"2018-10-05T22:04:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-06T02:04:48","slug":"duterte-didnt-link-drug-lord-chinese-envoy-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/10\/05\/duterte-didnt-link-drug-lord-chinese-envoy-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte didn&#8217;t link \u2018drug lord\u2019 to Chinese envoy: Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_160926\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-160926\" style=\"width: 1350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Roque.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-160926\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Roque.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Roque.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Roque-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Roque-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Roque-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-160926\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque, Jr. (Photo: YANCY LIM\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Malaca\u00f1ang on Friday clarified that President Rodrigo Duterte did not say businessman Michael Yang is involved in the drug trade.<\/p>\n<p>In a Palace press briefing, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque played a portion of the video of Duterte\u2019s speech where the President had actually cleared Yang from any involvement in illegal drugs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Pero kung sabihin mo \u2018yung<\/em>\u00a0Michael Yang<em>\u00a0lalabas ni\u2026 Hindi \u2018yan totoo. Matagal na \u2018yan sa<\/em>\u00a0Davao. (But if you say Michael Yang&#8230; it\u2019s not true. He has been in Davao for a very long time),\u201d Duterte was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>To support his remark clearing Yang, Duterte said the Davao-based businessman was even part of the entourage of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang who visited Manila in November last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s very clear that what the President meant to say was: Number one, he cannot believe that Michael Yang is involved in the drug trade. And number two, because he was saying he could not believe that Michael Yang is involved in the drug trade, the report that the President linked the Chinese Ambassador to a drug lord is obviously false,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Roque particularly mentioned online news site Rappler for coming out with a &#8220;malicious&#8221; report that could affect the improving relations between the Philippines and China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat report by Rappler is wrong, false, even malicious. It is also very dangerous, because it could possibly endanger the bilateral relations between the Philippines and China,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI call on Rappler to be responsible and to give the profession of journalism a favor by issuing the corresponding errata and to correct its story,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Rappler has responded and corrected its report, which has been cited by international wire agencies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously because it has gone international, it would have dire consequences for the diplomatic relations between the Philippines and China,\u201d Roque said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Malaca\u00f1ang on Friday clarified that President Rodrigo Duterte did not say businessman Michael Yang is involved in the drug &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":160926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-jelly-musico","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184357","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}