I’m more concerned with his position on relations with the USA and his views on China. I’ve made several trips to this country due to a wife from over there. The locals just sort of accept corruption like the residents of big cities in the usa. We can’t really project our values onto them. One third of that country is stunted - Which means they were malnourished and never grew to what their full height should have been. They have different values than we do, obviously.
Again, since this is FR, what is his position on the usa and china? TBH I didn’t follow this election and when my wife was, it was on on tagalog tv.
BJ1
Yes, that’s what we need to assess.
We don’t need China getting another nation to sign on.
I don't know how true it is, but I've read reports on the internet leading up to the election that supposedly Marcos was the most "China Friendly" of all the presidential candidates. If true this is disconcerting because one of the best points of President Ferdinand Marcos Sr. was his staunch opposition to communism. President Marcos knew how to handle the communists and the NPA.
One of the worst things about Dutarte was his pro-China views. Hopefully Marcos turns out to be more like his father and a lot less like Dutarte. Like him or not, Ferdinand Marcos Sr. was a very intelligent man, I would say he was probably a genius. Dutarte seemed to me to be somewhat of an idiot.