
Marcos Jr landslide in the Philippines: where to for Manila’s foreign policy?
Lowy Institute
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The Foreign Policy of the Philippines
The election of bong bong marcos is part of a reginal trend that were seeing of kind of high bred authoritarian and democratic rulers who can be very challenging for the united states to deal with. Am, what we need to understand about the marcus precedency is that this is really a restoration of the marcus family name. What complicates matters though, is that he has pending cases in the united states, so he can't really go to the united states for meetings and what not. But then again, there there are hope for a positive relationship between the two countries, considering that president byden also gave a call to marcus to congratulate him for his win in the elections
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