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Originally Posted by Battara
Also, just to make it clear, there has been trade and Chinese in the Philippines for a 1000 years or more.
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Indeed
And what's good is that the Chinese like to put things in writing. Thus the Chinese records dating back to more than a thousand years ago (describing trade with the Philippines -- the Chinese were not interested in conquest, they're in for the trade) continue to be excellent source materials in the reconstruction of our country's precolonial past.