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By Adam Jourdan and Jackie Cai SHANGHAI (Reuters) - At the end of Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte's landmark visit to China last month, he held a brief private meeting with a businessman who may have played a crucial role in improving ties between the two nations. Huang Rulun, a rags-to-riches Chinese billionaire funding two huge drug rehabilitation centers in the Philippines, has been held up by Duterte as a symbol of the relationship between the two nations. Born to a poor family in coastal Fujian province, Huang was a small-time businessman in the Philippines in the 1980s.

 

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