{"id":227381,"date":"2019-08-19T01:09:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T05:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=227381"},"modified":"2019-08-19T01:09:29","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T05:09:29","slug":"ph-top-diplomat-fire-diplomatic-protest-over-chinese-warship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/08\/19\/ph-top-diplomat-fire-diplomatic-protest-over-chinese-warship\/","title":{"rendered":"PH top diplomat: Fire diplomatic protest over Chinese warship"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DFAPHL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DFAPHL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aspac?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ASPAC<\/a> fire diplomatic protest over Chinese warship; drop the diplomatic crap; say it is ours period; they&#8217;re trespassing. If we did it already fire another. We won&#8217;t run out. &amp; don&#8217;t wait for formal intel. This is the Secretary of National Defense no less. Fire at will.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Teddy Locsin Jr. (@teddyboylocsin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/teddyboylocsin\/status\/1163251433552015360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 19, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nThe Philippines through Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Secretary Teodoro \u201cTeddyboy\u201d Locsin, Jr. ordered the filing of a diplomatic protest against China over the passage of five Chinese warships in Sibutu Strait.<\/p>\n<p>In Locsin\u2019s tweet on Monday, August 19, the top diplomat tagged the official Twitter accounts of DFA and its Office of Asia and Pacific Affairs (DFA ASPAC) and wrote, \u201cfire diplomatic protest over Chinese warship.<\/p>\n<p>He continued, &#8220;Say it is ours period; they\u2019re trespassing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Foreign Affairs secretary also said that if the Philippines has already filed one, it should \u201cfire another\u201d as \u201cwe won\u2019t run out&#8221; of diplomatic protests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t wait for formal intel. This is the Secretary of National Defense no less. Fire at will,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Some of China\u2019s warships have been passing the waters of Tawi-Tawi unauthorized since June 2019 as per reports from the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Malaca\u00f1ang has expressed \u201cconcern\u201d on the developments saying that the passage without prior clearance is not \u201can act of friendship,\u201d as the administration claimed the friendship of the two nations.<\/p>\n<p>Locsin\u2019s order is the second diplomatic protest filed in relation to the Chinese warships\u2019 presence in the Philippines exclusive economic zone (EEZ). However, it can also be remembered that the government filed more diplomatic protests against Beijing over other developments this year, including the collision incident in Recto bank in June and the presence of 200-plus Chinese vessels near Pag-asa Island in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@DFAPHL @ASPAC fire diplomatic protest over Chinese warship; drop the diplomatic crap; say it is ours period; they&#8217;re trespassing. If &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":216809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-bea-kirstein-t-manalaysay","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227381","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=227381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227386,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227381\/revisions\/227386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}