"Still, this doesn't end the tension"

"Still, this doesn't end the tension"

Earlier, the captain of the fishing boat FB GEM/VER apologized to president Duterte "after his comments made it appear he backed out of the supposed meeting with the president."

In an article from ABS CBN News, Capitain Junel Insigne, faced the media and said he was not aware that it was Agriculture Secretary Manny Piñol, not Duterte, who asked to meet him in Manila.

For earlier this week, Capt. Insigne said he would meet Duterte to demand accountability after a Chinese vessel Yuemaobinyu 42212 rammed his boat and left him and his 21 crew members in open waters.

However, Capt. Insigne said he backed out of the meeting because he suddenly felt ill.

At this time, with Agriculture Secretary Piñol beside him, Capt. Insigne apologized to the president because "his statement made it appear he ditched the President."

"I apologize to our dear president, that he did not call me but Secretary Piñol. I did not go because I felt bad," Insigne said in Filipino during a press conference in Occidental Mindoro.

Furthermore, the captain also appealed to Duterte to help them obtain justice from the perpetuator- even as the chief executive earlier downplayed the incident, much to the captain's dismay.

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Regardless of the recent apology by the capitain of the fishing vessel due to miscommunications with Malacanang, hope this doesn't equate to compromising justice and truth. 

For knowing that the regime as trying to upheld Philippine-Chinese relations, it is "natural" for them to be skeptical in regards to the incident; yet, this skepticism, what more of a downplay, hath rather fueled discontent, especially after a leader who described the sea ramming incident as a mere "hit and run". 

Ridiculous if not anger provoking isn't it? And no matter how some of its apologists trying to "calm down tensions" between an indifferent administration and an angry folk, this downplaying brought by a fellow Filipino hath made worse than the ramming incident brought by a Chinaman.- and to think that it is "natural" for the order to be skeptical towards this matter, then so is the folk also being "skeptical", or even "annoying" on how the order treated its fellow folk, be it this incident or any other incidents the order tries to evade as such. 

Anyway, what else should happen so that the folk would be able to finally come to their senses? Will the order trying its 'best' to steer them from reality with its debt-driven concrete delusions of development and grandeur (especially those financed by the Chinese), if not by blaming the opposition for seeking truth from facts?

No matter what the order tries to suffice the issue, of retractions and gifts, still, this doesn't end the tension.