An irate Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr.
on Thursday ordered his department to file a diplomatic protest against China over the presence of 287 Chinese vessels in Philippine waters as earlier announced by the National Task Force on the West Philippine Sea .In a series of tweets, Locsin was fuming mad as to why the NTF-WPS issued a press release without informing the DFA first.
“First NTF-WPS will explain to me why it made a press release and did not inform DFA so the only news today would be DFA fires diplomatic protest over the presence of 287 Chinese vessels. S—t,” he said. “When press released first it states the fact of alien presence in Philippine territory construable as possession-once again-until a diplomatic protest is filed. If the only news is diplomatic protest over alien presence you kill 2 birds with one stone: possession and claim of right,” he said.
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