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'Korek ka dyan': Acidre concurs with Tolentino's 'badge of honor' clapback vs China

Published Jul 2, 2025 06:03 pm

At A Glance

  • Tingog Party-list Rep. Jude Acidre agrees with former senator Francis "Tol" Tolentino that China's rebuke of the latter via travel sanction is actually a "badge of honor".
Tingog Party-list Rep. Jude Acidre (left), former senator Francis "Tol" Tolentino (MANILA BULLETIN, Facebook)
Tingog Party-list Rep. Jude Acidre (left), former senator Francis "Tol" Tolentino (MANILA BULLETIN, Facebook)


Tingog Party-list Rep. Jude Acidre agrees with former senator Francis Tol Tolentino that China's rebuke of the latter via travel sanction is actually a badge of honor.
Acidre, an assistant majority leader in the previous 19th Congress, gave this reaction Wednesday, July 2 to news that Tolentino had been barred from travelling to China, Macao, and Hong Kong.
This, after he was branded by the Chinese government as an anti-China politician.
''It's a question of sovereignty. In sovereignty, there are no gray areas there. It's either you stand with the country or not.Tinatanong palagi kakampi o mahal ba natin ang bansa o hindi. Hindi ka pwedeng mamili dito,'' Acidre said.
(We're always asked if we are for or if we love the country or not. You can't chose an answer here.)
''So kung iyan I think, tama nga si senator Tolentino. Kung ito po ay ang parusa, ang consequence kung sasabihin dun sa mga paninindigan niya, he'll consider it a badge of honor,'' he said.
(So in that case, I think senator Tolentino is correct. If this is a punishment, the consequence for his convictions, , he'll consider it a badge of honor.)
''And I think I would agree with him. It would be a badge of honor for anybody to have to face the consequences no matter how dire it may be for standing up for our country's sovereignty,'' added the Visayas solon.
Acidre also concurred with a fellow 20th Congress solon in Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Terry Ridon, who said Tuesday that the Philippine government should undertake a commensurate and proportional response to the travel sanction against former Senator Francis Tolentino.
''It should similarly impose similar travel sanctions on current or previous high-level Chinese officials who had been undertaking disinformation against PH interests in the West Philippine Sea (WPS),'' reckoned Ridon.
To this, Acidre said: ''Personally, I'm inclined to agree with Congressman Ridon. Dapat mas ipakita natin hindi lang sa salita, kungdi sa gawa...ang paninindigan tungkol sa mga usapin ng [WPS] (We must show not just in words but in deeds...our convictions about WPS issues).''
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