OPINION | Toward a more confident Philippine foreign policy By Jemy Gatdula READ:
OFFICE OF THE PRESS SECRETARYUN General Assembly was given by the Philippine president in the morning of Sept. 21, 2022 . Identifying himself simply as “Ferdinand Marcos,” he definitely would have known that, almost to the day, 40 years earlier, his father, Ferdinand Marcos the Elder, gave his own remarks before the Assembly.
This was echoed by the younger Marcos: looking at the still “unresolved problem: inequalities and inequities within and among countries continue to persist, and they continue to demand urgent action.” “This injustice,” he continued, “was evident during this pandemic, when the richer nations immediately received vaccines at the expense of the have-nots. We see, for example, dangers of this lurking in the persistent digital divide and in ballooning debt burdens.
This is all the more evident with regard to international affairs. After the unnecessarily trenchant but ultimately unthought through China policy of Noynoy Aquino, followed by the quite unfortunate China-centric obsequiousness of the Duterte administration, Marcos is seemingly more surefooted and clearer eyed on foreign policy.
Indeed. After 12 years of contradictory policy towards China, along with the relentless efforts of well-funded foreign and local China propagandists, the Philippines still prefer maintaining its distance from its large domineering neighbor. A Pulse Asia survey found 67% of Filipinos distrust China, while 89% favor the US, as well as Australia , Japan , Germany , South Korea , UK , Indonesia , and India .
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