{"id":236947,"date":"2019-11-09T00:27:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-09T05:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=236947"},"modified":"2019-11-09T00:27:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-09T05:27:00","slug":"dfa-defends-conferment-of-diplomatic-merit-to-zhao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/11\/09\/dfa-defends-conferment-of-diplomatic-merit-to-zhao\/","title":{"rendered":"DFA defends conferment of diplomatic merit to Zhao"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_225866\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-225866\" style=\"width: 1178px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/EBLf1gRUIAIEF13-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-225866\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/EBLf1gRUIAIEF13-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1178\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/EBLf1gRUIAIEF13-2.jpg 1178w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/EBLf1gRUIAIEF13-2-276x300.jpg 276w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/EBLf1gRUIAIEF13-2-768x834.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/EBLf1gRUIAIEF13-2-942x1024.jpg 942w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1178px) 100vw, 1178px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-225866\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Foreign Affairs Secretary @teddyboylocsin led the Department of Foreign Affairs&#8217; (DFA) celebrations of the 52nd anniversary of ASEAN on 5 August 2019 at the DFA. (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DFAPHL\/status\/1158234172982353920\">Photo<\/a>: @<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DFAPHL\/\">DFAPHL\/Twitter<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div><strong>MANILA<\/strong>&#8212; Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Friday defended the awarding of the Order of Sikatuna to outgoing Chinese Ambassador to Manila Zhao Jianhua, adding he was the one who proposed the conferment.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The clarification came as retired Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio questioned the move amid Manila&#8217;s territorial dispute with Beijing in the West Philippine Sea.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;That was my strong and insistent proposal and I wouldn\u2019t take no for an answer. The Palace protocol gave in and told him,&#8221; Locsin said on his official Twitter account.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Zhao and I have had great intellectual duels. Honor your foe honor yourself. I disdain sissies. We fight fiercely rationally for our countries,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pna.gov.ph\/articles\/1084459\">READ:\u00a0Duterte thanks Zhao role in PH-China \u2018stronger\u2019 ties<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">President Rodrigo Duterte conferred the Order of Sikatuna with the Rank of Datu on Zhao during his farewell call at the Malaca\u00f1ang Palace on October 28.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">During that meeting, President Duterte thanked Zhao for his role in improving the ties between China and the Philippines.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u201cPresident Duterte, whose independent foreign policy, drove the Philippines closer to the Asian economic giant, wished Chinese Ambassador Zhao Jianhua good luck in his next assignment as China\u2019s ambassador,\u201d Malaca\u00f1ang said in a recent statement.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA&#8212; Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Friday defended the awarding of the Order of Sikatuna to outgoing Chinese &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":225866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236947","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\/236947","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=236947"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236950,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236947\/revisions\/236950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}