Tolentino won’t compel Chinese diplomats to attend Senate hearing on wiretapping issue

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Senator Francis Tolentino clarified on Thursday that he was only extending an “open invitation,” not formal summons to Chinese embassy officials, as the Senate launches an investigation into the alleged wiretapping of conversations involving members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines .

“Good faith will be seen on the part of the Chinese embassy if they will voluntarily send their officials to the hearing,” the senator said, adding “we cannot force them to attend.”

 

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