Press Statement of Deputy Speaker and Batangas Rep. Ralph G. Recto

August 17, 2023

Teddy Locsin is the kind of diplomat “who can tell you to go to hell in such an elegant way that you’ll look forward with pleasure to making the trip.”

But he will not be there to rabble-rouse, but to press the reboot button, so that the PH-China relations will pivot toward a mutually respecting phase.

While he has the command of language that makes him our best weapon in a shouting war, the situation calls for no bullhorn diplomacy, but quiet labor that brings results.

But if need be, he can stare down China’s practitioners of wolf diplomacy.

For more than half a century, Teddy Locsin has articulated our dreams, chronicled our battles, and moved the nation with prose that inspires. 

In his newest mission for the Republic, there is no doubt that he can effectively champion our interest.