US President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. spoke with presumptive Philippine president Ferdinand “Bongbong” R. Marcos, Jr. on the phone on Thursday to congratulate him on his election. READ:
“President Biden underscored that he looks forward to working with the president-elect to continue strengthening the US-Philippine alliance,” the White House said in a statement posted on its website.
Mr. Marcos had assured the US president that the Philippines “has always held the United States in high regard as a friend, an ally, and a partner,” his political party said in a statement. The resource-rich waterway is a key global shipping route that is subject to overlapping territorial claims involving other Southeast Asian nations.
Mr. Marcos fled into exile in Hawaii with his family during a 1986 “people power” street uprising that ended his father’s autocratic 20-year rule. He has served as a congressman and senator since his return to the Philippines in 1991. Philippines-Chinese relations warmed under Mr. Duterte, who sought closer trade and investment ties with its neighbor. He set aside a United Nations-backed arbitral ruling that invalidated China’s claim to more than 80% of the sea in exchange for trade and investment pledges.Manila is a long-standing treaty ally of the US. Experts have said the victory of Mr. Marcos is a potential blow to US efforts to push back against China and maintain a rule-based order in the Indo-Pacific region.
“This speed of sending congratulations by the US had precedent when they congratulated Duterte within the week of elections in 2016,” said Hansley A. Juliano, a former political science professor studying at Nagoya University’s Graduate School of International Development in Japan.
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