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Liza Araneta Marcos’s rift with her husband’s deputy emerged last week after she chided the politician for reportedly laughing when her father and ex-leader Rodrigo Duterte called the president a “drug addict” at a rally in January.
Philippine-based independent polling firm WR Numero told This Week in Asia its findings also showed the Philippine public was “not a foreign-policy-type of population” and that its demands of the president were no different than other elected public officials.
MANILA – This week, the Philippines and United States kicked off their largest-ever and most consequential joint Balikatan (shoulder-to-shoulder) war games featuring as many as 16,000 troops including 11,000 American servicemen.
BEIJING -- China and the Philippines entered a "gentleman's agreement" to avoid conflict in the South China Sea under former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, the Chinese Embassy in the Philippines said Thursday, in a revelation that could be aimed at rattling the current administration in Manila.
Antonio Carpio, a former associate justice of the Supreme Court, told reporters on Friday that Duterte’s “status quo deal” has in effect given China control over the Second Thomas Shoal – a maritime landmark in the South China Sea where Manila grounded a WWII-era vessel, the BRP Sierra Madre, to strengthen its claims over the surrounding waters.
In what could be an ominous sign for Rodrigo Duterte, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has quietly put out a call for “freelance translators in Tagalog and Cebuano” – languages involved in the crimes against humanity trial the former Philippine president could face.
At a press briefing on Thursday, Duterte recalled his first state visit to China in 2016, during which he discussed various issues with Xi, including the Philippines’ plan to “dig oil” in the West Philippine Sea – Manila’s term for the waters of the South China Sea within the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone. Duterte said his Chinese counterpart was adamantly opposed and warned him strongly against it.
The President of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., named Major General Rommel Francisco Marbil as the country’s new police chief last week. Marbil replaces General Benjamin Acorda Jr., who retired at the start of April, only three months after his term had been extended by the president. The appointment has raised hopes of an end to the country’s lethal war on drugs.