Better late than never. That best describes the decision of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to implement stricter rules on the issuance of tourist visas to Chinese nationals in the wake of reports that fraudulently-obtained passports and visas had resulted in their illicit entry and overstay. Its action is long overdue in light of the crimes of human trafficking, forcible abduction, robbery extortion, and homicide that had earlier been committed by Chinese nationals who were allowed
This is a delicate moment in the Philippine – China relationship. It can arguably be claimed that this relationship is one of our longest and most enduring, spawning back almost a thousand years if we are to accept ancient Chinese artifacts as evidence. A trade relationship, definitely; and over time and interaction, a cultural one, too. Today, studies show that as much as 27% of Filipinos have some Chinese blood in them. Genetically, it would seem logical that our blood ties would make the Chinese influence as most dominant among all foreigners. But it never became so. In fact, for the
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