Category: China Aid
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@100 Years: Communist Party of China Passes Test of Time, Gears for a World Community of Shared Future
By Herman Tiu Laurel The Communist Party of China (CPC) was formed a hundred years ago in 1921 promising to uplift China and its people from centuries of feudalism marked by backwardness, widespread hunger and ignorance, with scientific socialism as its guide in understanding society, its conflicts and the solutions to poverty, development and emancipation…
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Saving Lives vs Saber Rattling
By Herman Tiu Laurel Another 400,000 doses of Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines from China are scheduled to arrive in Manila on April 11, 2021. With this, Sinovac deliveries since February 28, 2021 or in the past month-and-a-half, will total up to 2-million doses. Half of these are donations while the other half are the first million…
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Grossly misinterpreting ‘Isang Dagat’
“Those who object to the song show only their ignorance.” Rod Kapunan / Manila Standard / May 2, 2020 There is now a brouhaha of protest over the song “Isang Dagat” composed by the ambassador of the People’s Republic of China, Huang Xilian. The song was dedicated to the Filipino people to help ease the…
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A Bridge Too Low
Phil-BRICS Strategic Studies Position Paper What I heard is that the bridge is too low to enable barges carrying bridge parts for the NLEX- SLEX connector skyway and other planned Pasig River bridges to pass through. If true, it is then faulty planning. When the LRT bridge was being planned in the early ‘80s…
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Chinese eye largest Philippine shipyard after Hanjin default Former US base offers hub for Beijing projects
CLIFF VENZON, Nikkei staff writer JANUARY 12, 2019 02:51 JST MANILA — Chinese companies have expressed interest in taking over the Philippines’ largest shipyard after the local unit of South Korea’s Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction filed for rehabilitation this week. At least two major Chinese shipbuilders have inquired about the operations of Hanjin Philippines,…