Chinese want to use MONEY to force Filipino
to submit to Chinese GREED in ASEAN
Chinese want everything in ASEAN
n May 28, 10:20 pm, rst0 <
rst0w...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Who provokes, who pays back the fallout
> 2012-05-28 02:53:54 GMT2012-05-28 10:53:54(Beijing Time) SINA.com
> By Wang Qi, Sina Englishhttp://
english.sina.com/china/2012/0527/471056.html
> The Chinese are not buying bananas from the Philippines, even though
> China allows their entry, Philippine banana exporters lamented
> Thursday, according to a may 25 report from the Philippine Star.
>
> Stephen Antig, Pilipino Banana Growers and Exporters Association
> (PBGEA) executive director, said nobody in China was buying Philippine
> bananas that the Chinese government had allowed to be imported.
>
> He said if the situation continues, the bananas would have to be sent
> back to the Philippines.Antig added that China was going to send 100
> containers of bananas back to the Philippines and 240 containers were
> on the way back. Since the Chinese importers didn't buy them, those
> bananas could be deserted on the dock.
>
> Banana is the agricultural product with fifth largest production in
> the Philippines, and over half are exported to China. In 2011, 85
> percent of imported bananas in China were from the Philippines.
>
> However, Chinese quality inspection authority introduced a stricter
> standard in March and intensified quarantine on fruits imported from
> the Philippines early this month, saying harmful insects or bacteria
> had been found in pineapples, bananas and other fruit imported from
> the Philippines last year.
>
> China's quality watchdog has also turned down a Philippine offer to
> send its own personnel to China for joint inspection on Philippine
> fruit, citing the offer was neither in accordance with international
> conventions nor the relevant Chinese laws.
>
> Recent standoff over Huangyan Island fuels concerns among Philippine
> banana growers.
>
> Although China has allowed entry of some qualified Philippine bananas,
> the constant provocative rhetoric and activities could somewhat irk
> the Chinese businesses and consumers, also put sand in the wheels of
> the normalization of business transactions between the two sides.