MALACANANG is “threading cautiously” and studying how it could come up with a win-win solution to the proliferation of illegal Chinese workers in the country, a day after President Rodrigo Duterte opposed their deportation.

In a speech during a PDP-Laban event in Laguna on Saturday evening, Duterte said it was best if the Philippines would not deport the illegal Chinese workers because there were illegal Filipino workers who also benefitted from China.

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