Title:

 China gives guns to Philippines to show it's a friend, not a foe

Author:

Reuters Staff

Source:

Reuters

Date:

October 5, 2017 

Description:

MANILA (Reuters) - China gave 3,000 assault rifles to the Philippines on Thursday as a gesture of “friendly and cooperative relations”, the second shipment of rifles to the Philippines this year as President Rodrigo Duterte seeks closer ties with old foe Beijing.