LAST month, from Oct. 13 to 17, delegates from the Philippine Council for Foreign Relations (PCFR) flew to Beijing to meet with their counterparts, the Chinese Peoples Institute of Foreign Affairs (CPIFA). This annual dialogue is hosted in Beijing this year; alternatively, next year's will be held in the Philippines.
These engagements have been going on since 2016, initiated by former president Fidel V. Ramos and former Chinese ambassador to the Philippines, Fu Ying, for the purpose of developing a people-to-people (P2P) relationship augmenting a government-to-government (G2) one.
