When Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte visited Beijing in October, he received a pledge of $15 billion in investments for his country.
Last week, a Philippine delegation secured the funding for three large infrastructure projects including a river pump irrigation project, a new dam and a railway line.
CGTN’s Barnaby Lo traveled to Duterte’s hometown of Davao City, one of the first places to benefit from China’s investment.
Follow Barnaby Lo on Twitter @barnabychuck
Tonight’s panel takes a look at the future of the relations between China and the Philippines:
- Chen Xiaochen,a researcher at the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China
- Song Zhang, chief correspondent with Shanghai Wen Hui Daily in Washington D.C.
- Reuben Mondejar, associate professor in the Department of Management at the City University of Hong Kong
- Ronce Almond, a partner with the firm, The Wicks Group, in Washington, D.C.
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China offers to fund new jail in the #Philippines as part of its support for #Duterte's drug war (Photo: Xinhua)https://t.co/gPXH4bhf5N pic.twitter.com/gndiQQl9nh
— Global Times (@globaltimesnews) December 15, 2016
Duterte tells U.S. not to build military depots in the Philippines. "You place us all in danger," he says https://t.co/wfxPYUbc6J pic.twitter.com/zoExVvcMPQ
— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) January 30, 2017