{"id":52327,"date":"2015-06-19T17:35:56","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T09:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=52327"},"modified":"2025-01-07T14:43:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T19:43:20","slug":"dfa-says-no-to-calls-of-chinese-goods-boycott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/06\/19\/dfa-says-no-to-calls-of-chinese-goods-boycott\/","title":{"rendered":"DFA says no to  calls of Chinese goods boycott"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_52328\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52328\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/580974_189995217821987_63966581_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-52328\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/580974_189995217821987_63966581_n.jpg\" alt=\"The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) facade (Facebook photo)\" width=\"960\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/580974_189995217821987_63966581_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/580974_189995217821987_63966581_n-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52328\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) facade (Facebook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Amidst territorial disputes with China, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) discourages people\u2019s calls of withdrawing trade relations with China.<\/p>\n<p>DFA would not opt to take such drastic measures.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy lexapro online <a href=\"https:\/\/revleonidastheoptometrist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/lexapro.html\">revleonidastheoptometrist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/lexapro.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> Rather, \u00a0they sought to raise the public\u2019s awareness on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not advocating that&#8230; Our position is that this is not the sum total of our overall relationship with China,\u201d DFA Spokesperson Charles Jose said, referring to the increasing calls of boycott on China-made products.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy ventolin online <a href=\"https:\/\/revleonidastheoptometrist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/ventolin.html\">revleonidastheoptometrist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/ventolin.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe still have a lot of areas of cooperation with them that includes trade and investment, tourism, education and culture and people to people contacts&#8230; We would like to continue with this cooperation, we would like to strengthen and promote these other areas of cooperation that is why we deal separately with the South China Sea issue,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Acting on their aim of raising the people\u2019s level of awareness on the issue, the DFA is now conducting education and information campaigns nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>Some Filipinos, however, had already started anti-China actions, including boycott of Chinese goods. They had also conducted protests in various cities within and outside the country.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy neurontin online <a href=\"https:\/\/revleonidastheoptometrist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/neurontin.html\">revleonidastheoptometrist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/neurontin.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Some Filipinos see these moves as their way of fighting China, when the country could not engage on military actions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur people have the freedom and right to express their freedom of the press and assembly&#8230; But for us, an informed citizenry is enough,\u201d Jose said, regarding the boycott and protests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Amidst territorial disputes with China, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) discourages people\u2019s calls of withdrawing trade relations &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":52328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-cyra-moraleda","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52327","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=52327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280206,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52327\/revisions\/280206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}