Not getting anything right FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 08/28/2010

Not getting anything right

FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 08/28/2010 Good grief! Can’t this government ever get anything right? Relations between China and the Philippines are very strained at this point, and worse, the Hong Kong people are angry — very angry, and they want to let Noynoy Aquino and his government know it. They, opposition and pro-administration, are getting together to mount a huge protest rally to air their sentiments against the utter mishandling of the Arroyo government of the hostage crisis that killed eight of their countrymen and earlier, Chinese officials made it known that they didn’t care for the snub of Noynoy Aquino of their frantic telephone calls by also snubbing Malacañang through their rejection in giving the high level Philippine delegation the go signal for its trip to Beijing and Hong Kong. The Chinese snub, as usual, went on a spin, as the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) claimed it would be better to delay the trip until after the investigation is all done. But the RP delegation was hardly tasked to present the findings of the probe on the hostage crisis to the Chinese officials. The team was created to “mend fences” with China and Hong Kong. The go signal was not given by China, obviously as its way of showing its displeasure of the presidential snub as Noynoy did not take the calls from them. .... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100828com2.html

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