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At times it’s good to blow away the fairy dust to remind the world that despite Marcos’ welcome role in forging multilateral alliances against China’s wolfish territorial aims, his family’s history of human rights abuse and plunder are no laughing...
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Our peripatetic president is flying friendly skies. Diplomatic protocol gives him automatic entry into world circles of power as a duly elected head of state. But more significantly, geopolitical stakes leave major allies like the US, Australia, Japan, Britain, France, and Canada with no choice but to host him warmly, thanks to China’s unwitting gift of maritime aggression. .
Of course, the major powers’ toasts to Marcos as an “iron-clad” ally in the effort to check China’s adventurism is good for the Philippines’ sovereign interests. There’s just an off-putting aftertaste to swallow. Arguably, Marcos’ anti-China stance is also yielding better results for family rebranding domestically than his petulant sister Imee’s full-frontal historical revisionism. His position dovetails with popular sentiment, asnearly 80 percent of Filipinos China’s unabated incursions.
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