MANILA, Philippines — Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said Tuesday — in a seemingly cushioned manner — that his “outburst of temper” due to “repeated provocations” by China against the Philippines “won’t happen again.”
“No megaphone; it was an outburst of temper under repeated provocations in close succession by China against its Philippine neighbor which has kept reaching out for a measure of respect,” Locsin explained in a tweet, after Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin reminded him about “basic manners” in reaction to Manila’s chief envoy’s previous cuss-charged remarks on Beijing’s continuing presence in the West Philippine Sea.
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