Chinese Embassy leaks Philippine Senator's letter of apology

More from the Philippine Onion:

Before the end of office hours Friday, the Chinese Embassy in the Philippines leaked excerpts from the letter of the senator who chairs the foreign relations committee, and its terse reply.

What we gleaned from the English translation of the embassy's response, provided by the Taiwanese diplomatic office (otherwise known as the Manila Economic and Cultural Office or MECO), was that PROC officials gave some welcome comfort to the Philippine senator. (Read this with some grain of salt; officially, China claims Taiwan is part of its sovereign territory).

When she went ballistic like a wayward missile in a hearing on the NBN, the senator berated China as the cradle of corruption in the East. In her letter, she pleaded temporary insanity and revealed that she was also afflicted with a rare disease which leads to involuntary movements of her mouth and tongue. "Only during full moons do I understand what I'm saying," the senator confessed.

"Don't worry," the letter from the Chinese embassy said, "we have our own share of crazy people."

Sources in the senator's office said the letter from the Chinese ambassador came with kyamoy, dikyam, 200 pieces of white rabbit. siopao, and pansit. Amazing, said she, but where's the Maling?

The apology was accepted without protest, as was the reply.