China's embassy in the Philippines on Sunday said that its ambassador Huang Xilian's remarks about overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Taiwan were misquoted, misunderstood, or taken out of context.
in the implementation of the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement .
"The Philippines is advised to unequivocally oppose ‘Taiwan Independence’ rather than stoking the fire by offering the US access to the military bases near the Taiwan Strait if you care genuinely about the 150,000 OFWs," he said. To "set the record straight," the embassy provided two links to a transcript of Huang's remarks, one in Chinese and the other in English.said that these were Huang's words regarding the OFWs in Taiwan:
Some tried to find excuse for the new EDCA sites by citing the safety of the 150,000 OFWs in Taiwan, while China is the last country that wishes to see conflict over the Strait because people on both sides are Chinese. But we will not renounce the use of force, and we reserve the option of taking all necessary measures. This is to guard against external interference and all separatist activities.
“[W]e take grave exception to any effort by guests in our country to use this to fearmonger and intimidate us,” he said.
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