"Why don't you suggest closing the entire embassy ? 😊" That's China's embassy in Manila, answering Rep. Terry Ridon. He wants lower-ranking Chinese diplomats deported if Ambassador Jing Quan isn't. Then Sen. Kiko Pangilinan asked Marcos to send home "this arrogant, insulting, crude and insolent alien". The embassy called it "thuggish, hooligan-style language" and asked if that's the calibre of a Philippine senator. Now ten House members, De Lima and Diokno among them, have filed a resolution to get Jing recalled. The Palace says Marcos won't block it. The DFA's line: "It is not the place of a foreign mission to publicly criticize or taunt Philippine officials." So a senator can call an ambassador an "alien". The embassy answers back on Facebook. And the embassy is the one being told to mind its manners.