Would Ferdinand Marcos Jr be good for the United States?
How does he feel about China violating their sovereignty?
What were the hot button issues of the campaign?
RE: Would Ferdinand Marcos Jr be good for the United States?
I don’t think he’s hostile to the US even though his father’s regime fell when Reagan was president and they had to flee to Hawaii.
RE: How does he feel about China violating their sovereignty?
He has advocated diplomacy instead of confrontation, recognizing that the Philippines is not in any military position to face China.
His foreign policy looks to be a continuation of the previous Duterte administration’s policies.
RE: What were the hot button issues of the campaign?
* COVID POLICY
* THE ECONOMY
* THE DISPUTE WITH CHINA IN THE WEST PHILIPPINE SEA
* DRUGS
* MUSLIM AND COMMUNIST INSURGENCIES
“Would Ferdinand Marcos Jr be good for the United States?”
In spite of Chinese encroachment on islands long claimed by the Philippines, I think Marcos will like the outgoing president play the “nationalist” card and be kinda chummy with China, to tell the U.S. it is not depending on it, but also like the outgoing president will give in too much to China just to pretend they are independent. I think it may take some years yet but I think a backlash against chumminess with China will come. Meanwhile the U.S. cannot force the issue without risking a push against it. It will have to come by the Philppines choosing and I think it will take years.