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Is it even possible to “boycott” Chinese products?

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Is it even possible to “boycott” Chinese products?

Sure, it’s possible to boycott Chinese products. But you’d first need to invent a time machine. You’d have to bring the Philippines back to a time when it had no more than a third of its current population. You’d need to find the sweet spot in its history over which it mined, grew, and made…

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Philippines no longer a US lapdog, now a respectable ASEAN member and a REAL Asian nation

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Philippines no longer a US lapdog, now a respectable ASEAN member and a REAL Asian nation

The national artist for literature F. Sionil Jose cites Richard Javad Heydarian in “Our foreign policy”, his PhilSTAR piece . That’s probably due to both of them being Ilocano. On Javad’s part, he’s only part Ilocano so he’s no GI, but I digress. Jose, delves into the wisdom and pitfalls of abandoning the cozy embrace…

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