Locsin apologizes to China over 'Mao Che Tutung' tweet

Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. has apologized to China and Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines Zhao Jianhua after a tweet teasing the name of Chinese communist revolutionary Mao Zedong.

My profound apologies to the People’s Republic of China, the Communist Party responsible for its unprecedented achievements and Amb. Zhao, for using the Great Helmsman’s name in vain. All this revisionism makes me—as the first defender of “Red China”—forget my admiration.

— Teddy Locsin Jr. (@teddyboylocsin) October 13, 2019

“My profound apologies to the People’s Republic of China, the Communist Party responsible for its unprecedented achievements and Amb. Zhao, for using the Great Helmsman’s name in vain,” he tweeted on Sunday.

“All this revisionism makes me—as the first defender of “Red China”—forget my admiration,” he added.

On September 30, Locsin responded to a tweet saying aside from new slogans, the leftists in the Philippines should resort to a platform that fits the current setting of the Philippines—“a new direction rather than a backward step.”

Locsin agreed with this. In his tweet, he mentioned Mao Zedong but referred him as Mao Che Tutung. In Filipino translation, tutong means "burnt rice sticking to the bottom of the pot."

Exactly right. Move on from Lenin's WHAT IS TO BE DONE and from MAO CHE TUTUNG THOUGHT (I love tutung.) There's been Althuser since, and others. For God's sake: READ. Marxism as a philosophy "remains to be" (as the baduy like the say) the one with the strongest explanatory power. https://t.co/AKPEfdUXGF

— Teddy Locsin Jr. (@teddyboylocsin) September 30, 2019

“Exactly right. Move on from Lenin's WHAT IS TO BE DONE and from MAO CHE TUTUNG THOUGHT (I love tutung.) There's been Althuser since, and others. For God's sake: READ. Marxism as a philosophy "remains to be" (as the baduy like the say) the one with the strongest explanatory power,” Locsin tweeted. —Joviland Rita/KBK, GMA News