Chinese daily accuses Manila of ingratitude over US$100,000 typhoon donation
Global Times says Beijing might be the loser if it didn't offer help for storm victims, while Guangdong daily recalls Manila's 'provocations'
China should help victims of Super Typhoon Haiyan in spite of tensions between the two countries, according to a state-run newspaper. But another accused the Philippines of being ungrateful, a day after the Chinese government announced it would give US$100,000 in emergency aid and the Red Cross Society of China pledged to donate the same amount in emergency humanitarian aid.
"If China gives meagre aid to the Philippines this time, our own losses may well outweigh the losses inflicted upon them by insufficient aid," the Beijing-based Global Times said in an editorial yesterday.
The newspaper added that it was in China's interest to show generosity to a neighbour in need and that providing humanitarian aid to the victims was not in conflict with defending China's territorial claims in the South China Sea.
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Haiyan is feared to have killed more than 10,000 in the Philippines. It also struck southern China and Vietnam, with seven deaths recorded in Hainan and Guangxi and 14 in Vietnam.