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Pride fuels standoff with Hongkong

Published by Ellen on February 2, 2014

The current standoff with Hongkong is an example of the danger of ignorance, power, and pride combined. As American minister Robert Fulghum said in his book,All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, “Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.”

Hongkong Chief Executive CY Leung announces the lifting of no-visa privilege for Philippine government officials including diplomats.
Hongkong Chief Executive CY Leung announces the lifting of no-visa privilege for Philippine government officials including diplomats.
Last week, the Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying announced that the current 14-day visa-free arrangement for visiting Philippine diplomats and officials would be suspended starting Wednesday, February 5.

The sanction, which does not cover Filipinos who are going to Hongkong as tourists, is still over the Aug. 23, 2010 hostage- taking where eight Hongkong residents were killed after a disgruntled and desperate Filipino policeman hostaged a bus-load of Hongkong tourists at the Rizal Park in Manila.

In response, Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Secretary Raul Hernandez issued the government position of no apology, just regret.

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