{"id":50428,"date":"2015-05-26T17:06:23","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T09:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=50428"},"modified":"2015-05-26T17:06:23","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T09:06:23","slug":"fil-am-groups-call-to-boycott-chinese-made-goods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/05\/26\/fil-am-groups-call-to-boycott-chinese-made-goods\/","title":{"rendered":"Fil-am groups call to boycott Chinese-made goods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_88489804.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-32590\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_88489804-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock_88489804\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_88489804-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_88489804-900x597.jpg 900w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_88489804.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 A Filipino-American group is urging Filipinos to boycott Chinese-made products as a form of protest to China\u2019s so-called \u201cbullying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The US Pinoys for Good Governance (USP4GG) noted how China has been behaving \u201caggressively\u201d in the West Philippine Sea dispute with its neighboring countries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know that this is a difficult thing to ask people to stop buying products from China but this has to be done eventually, Ted Laguatan, legal counsel for USP4GG said as quoted in an ABS-CBN News report.<\/p>\n<p>He added that though it might be hard to boycott Chinese products, Filipinos should start doing it to express its will against China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut this is an important thing to express to the Filipino people that China is engaged in aggressive behavior,&#8221; Laguatan added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;China is acting like a rogue nation; like a non-civilized member of the global community. Therefore, their attempt to get these oil resources of the Philippines by building these military bases on Philippine territory should be stopped,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The group also scheduled the anti-China boycott day on June 12, in time of the celebration of the Philippine Independence Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 A Filipino-American group is urging Filipinos to boycott Chinese-made products as a form of protest to China\u2019s so-called &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":32590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50428","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}