00:01Senator Erwin Tulfo files a resolution seeking to declare Chinese Ambassador Jing Chuan a persona non grata.
00:07This over his recent remarks, which the Philippine government described as a thinly veiled threat on the use of force.
00:30In filing Senate Resolution No. 739, Tulfo expresses the Senate's serious concern over the controversial statement of the Chinese envoy.
00:39The Department of Foreign Affairs admonished Jing over his remarks and summoned the diplomat to express the government's serious concern.
00:46The DFA also told him it was not his place to taunt Philippine officials.
00:50Senator JV Ehercito first raised the possibility of senators filing a resolution to declare Jing persona non grata
00:57after the Chinese embassy in Manila dared Philippine officials to do so.
