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MANILA, Philippines – As a Senate panel grilled Bamban Mayor Alice Guo last week about her curious life, another committee interrogated Filipino diplomats over what it would take for the Philippines to expel a Chinese diplomat following an alleged wiretapping of his phone call with a military general.
Vice Admiral Alberto Carlos, the dismissed chief of the military’s Western Command, admitted that the call took place on January 3, 2024, and said he did not know the call was being recorded (therefore, it was a case of illegal wiretapping).
While saying he would disclose details of the phone call only in an executive session, Carlos denied making the so-called “new model” deal that China insists now governs Ayungin Shoal.
And so the Senate committee on national defense’s fi…