View from Manila: Making sense of the gutter talk from China’s embassy

Rappler22 October 2026, 07:29 UTCPeople's Republic of China

‘Let the good aspects prevail over bad ones. Otherwise we may easily fall into the situation of countermeasures and retaliation,’ China’s envoy says. Yet his taunts seem to be sending a different message altogether.

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