{"id":51596,"date":"2015-06-10T16:13:50","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T08:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=51596"},"modified":"2015-06-10T16:58:48","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T08:58:48","slug":"ph-china-friendship-day-celebration-cancelled-due-to-word-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/06\/10\/ph-china-friendship-day-celebration-cancelled-due-to-word-war\/","title":{"rendered":"PH-China Friendship Day celebration cancelled due to &#8216;word war&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_24641\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24641\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/shutterstock_173479769.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24641\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/shutterstock_173479769-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"Shutterstock Photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/shutterstock_173479769-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/shutterstock_173479769.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24641\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shutterstock Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Because of the ongoing tension between the Philippines and China, the Federation of Filipino-Chinese Chambers of Commerce and Industry decided not to celebrate the Filipino-Chinese Friendship Day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough there is no war, there is a word war and so we think it would be best not to push through with it,\u201d Angel Ngu, president of the host Federation of Filipino-Chinese Chambers of Commerce and Industry told reporters on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all see that the tension in the West Philippine Sea seems to be escalating. So we think that this is not a good time,\u201d Ngu told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the federation has decided to celebrate the Philippine Independence Day, instead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all thought to just have the celebration of Philippine Independence Day rather than have a celebration of Filipino-Chinese Friendship Day,\u201d Ngu said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the Chinese-Filipino community in the country is rather &#8220;concerned about what is happening in mainland China.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am a Filipino and I love the Philippines but I don\u2019t want the Philippines to have a conflict with where my father came from,\u201d Ngu added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Because of the ongoing tension between the Philippines and China, the Federation of Filipino-Chinese Chambers of Commerce and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":24641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51596","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=51596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}