{"id":171827,"date":"2018-07-18T04:51:56","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T08:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=171827"},"modified":"2018-07-18T04:51:56","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T08:51:56","slug":"china-asks-for-nothing-when-helping-ph-says-duterte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/07\/18\/china-asks-for-nothing-when-helping-ph-says-duterte\/","title":{"rendered":"China asks for nothing when helping PH, says Duterte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cEven one square of real estate\u201d in the Philippines wasn\u2019t put at stake when it received financial assistance from China, President Rodrigo Duterte said\u00a0on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the groundbreaking ceremony for the Binondo-Intramuros bridge that is set to be built by the Chinese government, the president in a speech said that China\u00a0has never asked anything in exchange when\u00a0extending assistance to the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mentioning his visits to China, Duterte said he had the honor to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping, stressing the time they engaged in a dialogue where they tackled the two countries&#8217; \u201cfriendships and cooperation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Duterte also talked about the landmark ruling in 2016 that granted Philippines rights over the West Philippine Sea, a subject that both he and Xi agreed to discuss at some other time, as \u201cChina has to deal with individually bilateral relations and issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Philippine government is giving China \u201csufficient period to sort out things,&#8221; the chief executive said, assuring that \u201cin the end, China will be fair and the equity will be distributed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>(DAILY NEWS ROUND UP FOR 07\/ 18 \/18)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEven one square of real estate\u201d in the Philippines wasn\u2019t put at stake when it received financial assistance from China, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":114184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","mauthors-ro-angelica-equio","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}