Richest Pinay in US Urges People to Boycott China-Made Apple Products

New York | Business tycoon and Sorsogon native Atty. Loida Nicolas Lewis said people should stop buying China-made products, especially Apple products in response to China’s ongoing land stealing operation in South China Sea.

Led by Nicolas Lewis, the US Pinoys for Good Governance (USPGG) and members of the Filipino-American community, one of the biggest Fil-Am groups located in eastern Hemisphere, are holding an anti-China protest on Fifth Avenue on June 12, as part of a global day of action against China’s so-called bullying in the West Philippine Sea over disputed territories.

“It is our own way of saying, sa manlulupig di ka pasisiil,” said Nicolas-Lewis, national chairman of the USPGG.

She said that the group chose to protest on the day the Philippines is celebrating its Independence Day in order to send a strong message that they will not allow China to occupy Philippine territories.

Nicolas Lewis, a lawyer by profession and widow of American business magnate Reginald Lewis is the first Filipino to pass the American bar without being educated in US.

In the past several years, Nicolas Lewis has been very vocal in her stance against China’s illegal occupation in South China Sea.

The rapacious reclaiming of land–there’s now 2,000 acres of artificial islands, 8 islands, 2000 acres–by China government you know, napaka-walang hiya. So what can we do? Kung pwede lang bobombahin natin, but of course we abide by the rule of law,” she said.

Nicolas-Lewis is organizing the non-violent protest in front of New York City’s Apple flagship store where she says products may be designed in the US but are mostly made in China.

“Each and every clear-thinking, country-loving Filipinos should stop buying China goods. Sasabihin ‘Ay balewala yan’. But if each one of us says ‘balewala’, then there is no fight against China. So each one of us should make that commitment, made in China, no!” she added.

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Lewis is calling all Pinoys abroad to join their cause and to organize other non-violent protests. LA Times has reported that a major Fil-Am community in San Francisco will do the same gathering on Philippine Independence Day.

“I ask all Pinoys, Americans, and friends to stop buying China products wherever you are. Let’s show them that the world can live without their existence”, USPGG member Tinothy Gallagher said.

/Oto Melara/ Assisted Press

Source: ABS-CBN

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