Senate President Juan Miguel F. Zubiri, speaking during the Ways and Means Committee hearing, said Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines Huang Xilian visited the Senate on Monday to discuss further bilateral relations between the two nations and mentioned the travel prohibition.
China’s Culture and Tourism Ministry has imposed travel restrictions on areas that are supposedly “endangering the personal and property safety of Chinese citizens.” Philippine President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr.’s office has not yet received any communication on China’s blacklisting of the Philippines, Acting Press Secretary Cheloy Velicaria-Garafil told a news briefing on Tuesday.
“Obviously, they can use this as another reason why we should abandon POGOs despite its perceived economic benefit,” he said in a Messenger chat. “It’s a bit rich to blame the Philippines for the POGO governance problem,” he said in a Messenger chat. “After all, they never domestically settled how these sectors/industries should be governed and disciplined, and now they’re blaming us for welcoming industries they considered forbidden/criminal/garbage.”John Paolo R.