IN strengthening bilateral relations between the Philippines and China, diplomatic activities and cultural exchanges between the two countries at the state-to-state and people-to-people levels are pivotal ingredients in enhancing mutual understanding, cooperation, friendship, and resolving differences and conflicts of interests.
In the same manner that the inter-state relations between the two countries are fundamental, people-to-people ties are thus far one of the building blocks that strongly bind the bilateral relations of the Philippines and China.
People-to-people ties
One of the instrumental and pivotal factors that helped establish and strengthen the official diplomatic ties between the Philippines and China is people-to-people relations. Before the establishment of official diplomatic ties between the two countries, the Association for Philippines-China Understanding…
