Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Thursday called the attention of the Chinese Embassy after his statement in relation to China’s latest incursions into the country’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the South China Sea apparently got lost in translation.
In a Twitter post, Locsin said Chinese social media apparently had a different take on the “fire at will” directive that he gave to his legal team, an instruction to issue a diplomatic protest over the recent sighting of more than 200 Chinese vessels at Julian Felipe (Whitsun) Reef.
‘Totalitarian distortions’
He said the Chinese seemed to have mistaken the phrase “fire at will” to mean an order to actually use weapons against…
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