Planned China industrial complex in Clark no security threat: Lorenzana

November 24, 2018

There is nothing to concerned about China's plan to build an industrial complex in Clark Air Base in Pampanga, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said Saturday.

“What security threat? It’s purely for business purposes. Why, do you think China’s military will go there? No. They’re all Chinese businessmen who will invest in the country,” Lorenzana said in the sideline of the 77th Ad Interim Supreme Council meeting of Veterans Federation of the Philippines in a Quezon City. '

China’s plan to construct an industrial complex was among the 29 bilateral agreements signed between the Philippines and China during Chinese President Xi Jinping's recent state visit.

Both sides have agreed to hasten implementing the Philippine-Chinese Industrial Park Development Program to provide an enabling environment for their einterprises to invest in each other’s country, a Palace statement said.

“It’s good because they will put an industrial park there. They will up manufacturing facilities that will generate lot of jobs. Anyway, China cannot bring those land to Beijing. They will just ( have) that 500 hectares to put up their technopark, to put up their businesses and their manufacturing facilities,” Lorenzana said.

Clark Field and Subic Bay  in Olongapo City are classified as key security zones over northern, central Luzon and Metro Manila. DMS