The Philippines shares a long history with the United States. The islands became a U.S. colony at the end of the 19th century in the wake of the Spanish American War.

菲律宾和美国有很深的渊源，19世纪末随着美西战争的爆发成为了美国的殖民地。

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Filipino emigration to America actually began at the turn of the last century, according to Ricardo Jose, a history professor at the University of the Philippines.

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If Bush or Vice President Dick Cheney or Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, the administration's leading neoconservative, had been aware of the brutal war America had fought in the Philippines, or of Wilson's misadventures in Mexico, or of the blighted history of Western imperialism in the Mideast, they might still have invaded Iraq.

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In 1944, the U.S. navy beat the Japanese at Leyte Gulf in the Philippines after three days of what is seen as one of history's great sea battles.

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