LAST week when The Manila Times announced the appointment of Dr. Dante A. Ang, this paper’s chairman emeritus, as President Rodrigo Duterte’s special envoy for international public relations, some people thought it was a clever move, on Malacañang’s part, to balance the appointment of Senator Alan Peter Cayetano as foreign secretary after his disastrous performance at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, and that of a sex dancer whose photos appear in some Internet porno site as the President’s social media specialist. Together with former Speaker Jose de Venecia’s appointment as special envoy for inter-cultural dialogue, which many welcomed without a clue on what the job is all about, Dr. Ang’s appointment was seen as a big plus in DU30’s effort to tame the hostile foreign press.