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In 1971, he was one of 14 young activists fighting against President Ferdinand Marcos and defied a government ban against travel to China by visiting the country for a three-week study tour. A bombing at Plaza Miranda on August 21, 1971, put the group on a list of "subverisives" causing FlorCruz to self-exile in China. [ 2 ]
President Bongbong Marcos summoned Chinese ambassador Huang Xilian. On February 14, 2023, President Bongbong Marcos summoned Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines Huang Xilian over the incident to express concern over "the increasing frequency and intensity of actions" of China against the Philippine Coast Guard and Filipino fishermen.
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr met with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday, seeking ways to come up with ways to reduce tensions in the South China Sea and restore Filipino fishermen ...
September 14 – The Philippines overtakes China as the world's top rice importer, according to the report by the United States Department of Agriculture. [267] [268] September 15 – Six Philippine companies are included in the Time Magazine's list of World's Best Companies of 2023. [269]
China and the Philippines have created such emergency telephone hotlines at lower levels in the past to better manage disputes, particularly in two fiercely disputed shoals where the Philip ...
BEIJING/MANILA (Reuters) -China repeated its call for the Philippines to tow away a grounded warship - a World War Two-era vessel now used as a military outpost - from a disputed shoal on Tuesday ...
In 2009, the Philippines and China signed the Joint Action Plan for Strategic Cooperation, a five-year agreement to increase cooperation in all areas. [10]: 158 In 2016, Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte and Chinese president Xi Jinping created the biannual Bilateral Consultation Mechanism on the South China Sea, a process allowing the two nations to peacefully manage disputes and ...
The Philippines on Friday accused China of blasting one of its supply vessels with a water cannon in the latest confrontation between the two nations in the disputed South China Sea.