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"...Chinese immigrants had slowly migrated to Southeast Asia long before the Europeans arrived. In the Philippines, there were never as many Spanish people as Chinese at any time. By 1603, when the Spanish colonial rule in Manila had been established for 32 years, there were nearly 20,000 local Chinese, but fewer than 1,000 Spanish. The Chinese actually controlled the entire economic life of the Spanish colony and were expanding their influence to the whole archipelago. It was in this year - 1603 - that the Chinese in Manila suffered a massacre, but this massacre was tolerated by the Chinese government at the time. The Chinese in Manila, as well as those throughout Southeast Asia, still suffer periodic massacres and looting to this day.""...whoever controls the Indian Ocean will control Asia. The Indian Ocean is the gateway to seven seas, and the fate of the 21st-century world will be decided on the Indian Ocean."