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Trade talks

“I credit it to the wisdom of our president [Rodrigo Duterte] to really be more realistic and practical, to consider the positive points of having a relationship with China renewed”

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Ramon Lopez

The Philippine Secretary of Trade and Industry Ramon Lopez lauds a 34% year-on-year increase in the country’s exports to China. He told the South China Morning Post this was down to taking a “realistic and practical” approach to disputes over islands in the South China Sea.


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