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The Great Migration of Austronesian People to the Philippines
Long before the Han Chinese started showing up in Guangdong Province, there was a long, established, non-high trade going on. From the nephrite jade that's found locally in Taiwan and dug up from graves all over Southeast Asia, it appears likely that trade networks were already forming. And we think it was sometime around 2,200 BC or thereafter that these people in south and east Taiwan migrated to the Philippines.