China-Philippines relationship has entered a new stage as Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Philippine President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr. in Beijing on Wednesday during Marcos’s three-day state visit to China.
This is the first foreign head of state hosted by China in 2023. And this state visit is also President Marcos’s first trip to China and his first official visit to a non-Asean country. At the meeting, President Xi alluded to the thousand-years-long engagement between the two countries and said that despite the differences in national condition and political system, the two countries share similar goals in their developmental path.
Before the Covid-19 pandemic, China was the Philippines’s second largest source of tourism income, an industry that contributed 12.7 percent to the Philippine economy in 2018. A total of 1.74 million Chinese tourists visited the Philippines in 2019, an increase of 38.58 percent from 2018. During his meeting with President Xi on the sidelines of the APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting in 2022, President Marcos stressed that China-Philippines relationship should not be defined by maritime issues. And the fact that the two countries upgraded their relationship despite territorial disputes shows that managing differences while moving forward is not a political slogan, it is an achievable objective. It is achievable to not let one issue define a relationship.
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