A day after he launched a profanity-laced demand for the Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s withdrawal from the Philippine waters, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Tuesday issued an apology specific to his foreign counterpart Wang Yi. “I won’t plead the last provocation as an excuse for losing it; but if Wang Yi is following Twitter, then I’m sorry for hurting his feelings but his alone,” Locsin said in a social media post. “His opinion alone matters,” he added.

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