President Rodrigo Duterte recently announced that China is planning to build two bridges across the Pasig River as part of the $10-billion investment package agreed upon by the Philippines and China.
The agreement is a result of the renewed vigor in bilateral cooperation between the two countries under Duterte and China’s President Xi Jinping.
“China has promised us, for all their goodness…to build two bridges over the Pasig River. Free. Gratis. And I bow in gratitude,” Duterte said in his speech during the groundbreaking of a drug rehabilitation facility in Barangay Casisang, Malaybalay City, Bukidnon over the weekend as quoted by Philippine Star.
The President only had good words for the Chinese president, as well as, Chinese Ambassador Zhao Jianhua, who was also present at the two activities attended by the Chief Executive in Bukidnon.
Duterte is known to strike a more conciliatory tone when it comes to dealing with China compared to his predecessors.
