MANILA, Philippines—The Bureau of Immigration banned Chip Tsao from entering the country after the Hong Kong journalist called the Philippines a “nation of servants.”
“This is our manifestation of disgust against the racial slur and insult committed by Mr. Chip against us as a people,” Immigration Commissioner Marcelino Libanan said Tuesday.
Libanan also chided the Hong Kong journalist for his “arrogance and disrespect to the country and the Filipino people.”
He said Chip would only be removed from the blacklist if he will make a public apology adding that he would even offer to personally tour the Hong Kong columnist around the country “to show him that the Philippines is not a 'nation of servants' but a nation of professionals.”
