Return to sender? Misbehaving Chinese envoys should be expelled, replaced with 'better ones'--solons

Manila Bulletin

Chinese diplomats who misbehave or don't know how to follow laws in the Philippines should be sent home and replaced with "better ones", Manila 6th district Rep. Bienvenido "Benny" Abante Jr. and Lanao del Sur 1st district Rep. Zia Alonto Adiong said.  READ MORE: https://mb.com.ph/2024/5/17/return-to-sender-misbehaving-chinese-envoys-should-be-expelled-replaced-with-better-ones-solons  Subscribe to the Manila Bulletin Online channel! - https://www.youtube.com/TheManilaBulletin  Visit our website at http://mb.com.ph Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/manilabulletin Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/manila_bulletin Instagram: https://instagram.com/manilabulletin Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@manilabulletin  #ManilaBulletinOnline #ManilaBulleti

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00:00 We should have expelled him a long time ago.

00:02 I mean, where did you see a Chinese diplomat

00:06 who always says bad things about the Philippines?

00:10 You're a diplomat, right?

00:12 I mean, you should always say good things.

00:15 But whenever he would speak,

00:18 he would always speak against our policies,

00:22 against what we want.

00:24 But if he's a diplomat,

00:26 what he would do is like a shuttle,

00:28 a shuttling between China and the Philippines.

00:32 That is the work of a diplomat.

00:36 But no, this Chinese diplomat

00:39 is saying things against the Philippines.

00:43 So he should be expelled.

00:45 That's my own personal opinion.

00:46 I have an opinion.

00:48 We have an anti-wiretapping law in the country.

00:52 Even the court will not accept the evidence

00:54 if it's illegally acquired through wiretapping.

00:58 That's not allowed.

00:59 I, or anyone who is involved in investigating wiretapping,

01:04 because first of all, you're a diplomat.

01:06 Manong Benny was right.

01:08 If you're a diplomat, you have to present yourself diplomatically.

01:11 Why do you need to tap?

01:14 What is your intention there?

01:15 Of course, your intention there is to,

01:17 this is what we use, espionage, right?

01:20 If you're a diplomat, you have to be diplomatic,

01:24 even in the way you act, the way you speak.

01:27 But if you are there and then you demean the country

01:31 that the country is hosting you,

01:34 in order to promote a harmonious relationship

01:38 between your principal country and the one that is hosting you,

01:41 I think there's something wrong with you.

01:43 And on the part of the Philippines,

01:46 I think it's better also that we can ask China

01:51 to send a better one.

01:54 [ Silence ]

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