{"id":227759,"date":"2019-08-22T19:12:27","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T23:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=227759"},"modified":"2019-08-22T19:12:27","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T23:12:27","slug":"protest-filed-over-china-warships-passage-in-ph-waters-locsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/08\/22\/protest-filed-over-china-warships-passage-in-ph-waters-locsin\/","title":{"rendered":"Protest filed over China warships&#8217; passage in PH waters: Locsin"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_200480\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-200480\" style=\"width: 930px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Teddy-Boy-Locsin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-200480\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Teddy-Boy-Locsin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"930\" height=\"756\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Teddy-Boy-Locsin.jpg 930w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Teddy-Boy-Locsin-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Teddy-Boy-Locsin-768x624.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 930px) 100vw, 930px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-200480\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;They&#8217;re just fired off, that&#8217;s it,&#8221; he told the media in an interview. Locsin did not provide additional details, saying he prefers to discuss the issue with the Philippine Army. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TeddyBoyLocsin\/photos\/a.1901320119922725\/1917229648331772\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TeddyBoyLocsin\/\">Teddy Boy Locsin\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. confirmed Thursday that the Philippine government filed a diplomatic protest over the passage of some Chinese warships in Philippine waters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re just fired off, that&#8217;s it,&#8221; he told the media in an interview. Locsin did not provide additional details, saying he prefers to discuss the issue with the Philippine Army.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know how I feel about speaking to the civilian media, I speak only to the army. Really, that&#8217;s the best,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve already described my foreign policy as the fist in the iron glove of the army.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Western Mindanao Command earlier reported that five Chinese naval vessels passed through Sibutu Strait in the waters of Tawi-Tawi &#8212; four of which were recorded in July and the last on August 4.<\/p>\n<p>The unauthorized passage compelled President Rodrigo R. Duterte to issue an order, instructing all foreign vessels passing through the Philippines\u2019 territorial waters to get a clearance \u201cwell in advance\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear whether the issue will be brought up by Duterte, who is expected to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping, when he visits China anew.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about Duterte&#8217;s agenda on his China trip, Locsin said the government was still &#8220;working on&#8221; it.<em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. confirmed Thursday that the Philippine government filed a diplomatic protest over the passage &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":197517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-joyce-ann-l-rocamora","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227759","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=227759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227760,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227759\/revisions\/227760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}