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Chinese netizens call for boycott of Philippine products
Following the Permanent Court of Arbitration's (PCA) South China Sea ruling, Philippine products such as mangoes are being boycotted in China.
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Chinese netizens have called for their fellow citizens to stop eating mangoes imported from the Philippines, in a move to boycott the country's products. (Shutterstock/-)
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ollowing the Permanent Court of Arbitration's (PCA) South China Sea ruling, Philippine products such as mangoes are being boycotted in China.
In the virtual world, Chinese netizens have stated that their fellow citizens should stop eating the fruit as it is imported from the Philippines. Slogans such as "If you want to eat a mango, buy from Thailand" and "Filipinos to die of hunger" have been widely circulated on Chinese microblogging site Weibo.
"If you like China, do not buy imported goods from the Philippines," one user wrote on Weibo, as quoted by tempo.co.
(Read also: Indonesia's statement on South China Sea dissatisfying: China's experts)
"I would eat Guangxi's dried mango, drink Yunnan's coffee, and eat Hainan's durian. The point is, I will make sure my money stays in China," said another netizen.
Even some vendors on Taobao, China's largest e-shopping platform, pledged to boycott snacks from the Philippines. "Our online store will not sell Cebu mangoes from the Philippines and will not sell snacks imported from that country again," one Taobao vendor based in Shanghai told the BBC on Wednesday.
The protest involved images of imported mango snack packaging that featured the word “boycott”. The picture has reportedly been distributed at least 400,000 times on Weibo and has received 50,000 comments calling on the Chinese government to boycott Filipino products. (jam/kes)
