On August 18, 2025, the Filipino-Chinese Amity Club (菲華聯誼總會), a Philippines-based overseas Chinese organization with close ties to China’s United Front Work Department, co-hosted a photo exhibition at Angeles University Foundation (紅溪禮示大學) in Angeles City, together with the university’s Confucius Institute (孔子學院) and the Club’s Central Luzon branch (中呂宋分會). The exhibition commemorated the 80th anniversary of victory in the “World Anti-Fascist War and War of Resistance Against Japan” (世界反法西斯戰爭暨抗日戰爭) — the official Chinese Communist Party framing of World War II. More than 400 attendees included the mayor of Angeles City, university officials, representatives of Chinese enterprises in Central Luzon, and local students. The event was reported by People’s DailyOnline (人民網). Speakers invoked shared Sino-Philippine wartime history and called on younger generations to “cherish the hard-won peace” (珍愛和平) — stock language in PRC commemorative diplomacy that consistently emphasizes China’s historical war narrative (emphasizing the CCP’s role to the exclusion of the Republic of China) while cultivating relationships with local Chinese elites.
On January 21, 2026, a delegation from the Filipino-Chinese Amity Club (菲華聯誼總會) visited the Chinese Embassy in Manila, meeting with People’s Republic of China Ambassador to the Philippines Jing Quan (井泉). The delegation, framed around cultural exchange was led by Club Chairman Cai Mingfeng (蔡明豐) and included multiple honorary chairmen and vice chairmen. Cai told the ambassador that the Club had spent its 52-year history “promoting friendship” between the Philippines and China and advancing bilateral trade and cultural exchange. Ambassador Jing “fully affirmed” the Club’s efforts toward Sino-Philippine friendship. Attendees pledged to “consolidate” ties, invoking a “thousand-year history” of traditional friendship and vowing to give the ties “vigorous new life” in the “new era” — a direct reference to Xi Jinping’s terminology for the period corresponding to his rule. The club, which is listed formally as a “patriotic organization” (愛國團體), invokes friendship in its very name — a term carrying specific political weight in CCP discourse, and essentially meaning the accommodation of China’s official lines and positions — and operates, by its own account, “under the strong support of the Chinese embassy in the Philippines.” Wu Zhongzhen (吳仲振), the club’s “permanent honorary chairman” (永遠名譽理事長), serves as publisher of The World News (菲律賓世界日報), which calls itself the Philippines’ largest Chinese-language daily. The paper is the direct institutional descendant of the Club’s own Lianyi Weekly (聯誼週刊).
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