A COUPLE of weeks ago, a Facebook post reported that Ambassador Teddy Boy Locsin Jr., our man at the Court of St. James's, London, has been named special envoy to the People's Republic of China, tasked with 'special concerns' related to the West Philippine Sea.
The announcement ran under a letterhead but contained nothing else. There were no details. No attributions.I did not know what to make of it, so I decided to wait for a more elaborate official announcement. But before I could get any answers to my own questions, people started asking me the same questions. So I called the DFA protocol. The officer who took my call was genuinely sorry that he had not heard of Teddy Boy getting a new assignment.
It is a political plum, and I could not understand why a former foreign secretary who sits there as resident ambassador would be downgraded as a 'special envoy' to Beijing, where there is a full-time Chinese-speaking ambassador. London is a major assignment that will not allow one to pick up any extra chores anywhere. If there was an unfilled small diplomatic post close to London, perhaps the ambassador could be asked to take it as a weekend assignment.
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