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Chinese social media calls for Filipino mango boycott

The South China Sea ruling saw an international tribunal rule against China and in favour of the Philippines. As a result, Chinese citizens have taken to social media to call for people who "love China" to refuse to buy Philippine imports and in particular Filipino mangoes. 

One comment on a photo urged people to buy Thai mangoes instead.
Slogans like "If you want to eat mango, buy Thailand's" and "Starve the Filipinos to death" have been widely circulated on microblogging site Weibo.

"If you love China, don't buy Filipino imports", said one comment.
"I will eat Guangxi dried mango, drink Yunnan coffee and eat durian from Hainan. Anyway the point is, I'm making sure my money stays in China," another comment said.

Even some vendors on Taobao, China's largest e-shopping platform, pledged to boycott the Filipino snack, dried mango.

"Our online shop will not sell Cebu mango from the Philippines and will not sell any snacks imported from the country anymore", a Shanghai-based vendor on Taobao told state media outlet Global Times.
'Won't accept, won't participate, won't recognise'

The topics #SouthChinaSeaResult and #ChinaDoesn'tCareAboutYou have been among the top 10 trending topics on Weibo since the ruling.

Chinese media is heavily controlled and censored, which goes some way to explaining the noticeable lack of negative comments directed towards the Chinese government.


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