This was a marked contrast to President Rodrigo Duterte who had refused to challenge China’s dominant presence there, and even declared that he loved Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Marcos also toned ...
Political loyalties are fluid; senators and members of congress constantly shift their party allegiances. Power inevitably concentrates around the president, with his authority to dispense government ...
Yet the ways in which Marcos and Vice President Sara Duterte, the former president’s daughter, are going at it, it’s time to worry that dynastic family squabbling is again setting back the nation.
Duterte even publicly declared that he loves Xi Jinping, that he needs China more than anybody else, that he was “inutile” and “cannot do anything” against Beijing’s pursuit of territory ...
Therefore, the tensions between the president and the vice president may cause some backlash to the Marcos' administration's policies in the Duterte family's political strongholds in the south of ...
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said Friday that filing impeachment complaints against the vice president, who is facing a legal storm after publicly threatening to have him killed, would be ...
and Vice President Sara Duterte won in landslide electoral victories ... West while nurturing close ties with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian leader Vladimir Putin. He has accused Marcos ...