Jolo Sulu economy relied on the network of nearby trading partners.
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14 Facts About Jolo Sulu
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Since the 15th century, the Jolo Sulu Sultanate traded local produce with neighbors and with countries as far as China by sea.
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Mostly originating from the Fujian province, most of the Chinese in Jolo Sulu worked as craftsmen, skilled and unskilled laborers and domestic servants for wealthy Tausugs and Chinese.
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Chinese who lived in Jolo Sulu ran guns across a Spanish blockade to supply the Moro Datus and Sultanates with weapons to fight the Spanish, who were engaging in a campaign to subjugate the Moro sultantes on Mindanao.
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Town of Jolo Sulu is located on the north-west side of the Jolo Sulu Island, which is located south-west of the tip of Zamboanga Peninsula on Mindanao island.
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Jolo Sulu has a consistently very warm to hot, oppressively humid, and wet tropical rainforest climate .
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Economic development in Jolo Sulu has been hampered by instability, violence and unrest caused by the presence of several Islamist separatist groups in the Bangsamoro.
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Jolo Sulu has faced a large degree of lawlessness and poverty.
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Jolo Sulu is a main stronghold for the Al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf group, and these conditions are ideal for militant recruitment.
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In 2007, United States Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Karen Hughes and US Ambassador Kristie Kenney visited Jolo Sulu to learn about US government-sponsored projects for 'development, peace and prosperity' in the region.
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The United States Agency for International Development has funded a 'farm-to-market' road between Maimbung and Jolo Sulu to help farmers transport agricultural produce to the market.
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In present-day Jolo Sulu, there is a degree of lawlessness and clan-based politics.
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The Jolo Sulu government is attempting to spread this zone of peace into the countryside.
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