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Analysts say it’s crucial for the Philippines to strengthen security cooperation with like-minded countries, not only for bolstering its claims in the South China Sea but also for its ongoing military modernisation efforts amid a shift in focus of its defence strategy from internal to external.
Officials from France and the Philippines are set to meet in Paris this month to negotiate a visiting forces agreement. French troops are also expected to continue taking part in the annual joint exercises involving their US and Philippine counterparts after taking part for the first time last month.
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr’s efforts at rehabilitating his family image and rebranding himself as more pro-human rights than his predecessor look to be paying off, after Time magazine included him in its list of 100 Most Influential People of 2024.
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.
Philippine Vice-President Sara Duterte has countered first lady Liza Araneta Marcos’ claims of “feeling hurt” by the former, saying such emotions were unrelated to her mandate as a government official.
“We need more time for the widespread dissemination of information on this ban,” Marcos Jnr said in a statement on Thursday, three days after the ban went into effect.
Tech start-up founder Brett Goldstein posted on X last week about his experience at Japanese fried chicken joint Sansan Chicken in the East Village, where he encountered a Filipino woman working the cash register from over 13,000km away and who appeared on a monitor via Zoom.
Sheesh, real name Mac Coronel, confirmed in a social media post that she was attacked at a local town concert in Bayambang, a town in Pangasinan province around 200km away from Manila.