If that’s the case, we should no longer give [infrastructure] projects to state-owned Chinese companies here in the Philippines,’” Zubiri said in a radio interview on Thursday night. “I was elated because Secretary Bautista said they [would] no longer get Chinese state-owned companies in the construction of [railways], airports and other big-ticket items,” he added. Vietnam is among the countries in Southeast Asia which have overlapping claims in the South China Sea. ADVERTISEMENT‘Friendly’ states“Why should we let the taxes of the Filipino people be used to fund these Chinese state-owned companies? We should blacklist their companies,” Zubiri added.
