{"id":175658,"date":"2018-08-08T04:00:45","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T08:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=175658"},"modified":"2018-08-08T04:00:45","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T08:00:45","slug":"chinese-president-xi-visit-ph-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/08\/08\/chinese-president-xi-visit-ph-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese President Xi to visit PH this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_175659\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-175659\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/prrd-with-china-xi-jinping-file.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-175659\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/prrd-with-china-xi-jinping-file.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-175659\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The invitation was extended by the Philippine side when President Rodrigo Duterte and President Xi first met. (PNA file photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano on Tuesday said the country is looking forward to the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to the Philippines within 2018.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are looking forward to President Xi Jinping visiting the country this year but we are still talking about specific dates,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The invitation was extended by the Philippine side when President Rodrigo Duterte and President Xi first met.<\/p>\n<p>Cayetano said the Chinese side accepted &#8220;right away&#8221; but the latter replied that this year will be the better date for the trip.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, he explained that high-level visits demand numerous preparations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Remember when presidents at this level meet, there are a lot of preparations and a lot of things that they want to announce. When President Duterte visits other countries, they go home with agreements in different fields of cooperation so we&#8217;re working on that as if it will happen in the next few months. But we\u2019re looking at the latter part of the year,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte first visited China in October 2016 at the invitation of Xi.<\/p>\n<p>He then returned to Beijing in May 2017 to attend the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>In April, the President attended the Boao Forum in Asia in the southern Chinese province of Hainan.<\/p>\n<p>Xi, meanwhile, skipped the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Manila last year. He was represented by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano on Tuesday said the country is looking forward to the visit of Chinese &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":175659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-joyce-ann-l-rocamora","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175658","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=175658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}