President Duterte warned yesterday that the Philippines will respond accordingly against foreign vessels passing through the country’s territorial waters without permission.
The Department of Foreign of Affairs (DFA) will provide assistance to hundreds of Filipinos in Israel who are facing deportation, Malacañang said on Monday.
Not since Rizal has The Philippines produced a major national figure who prioritises internal development over aligning with one or multiple external powers as is the case in respect of President Rodrigo Duterte. As such, Duterte cannot be said to be for or against China nor the United States but instead he continues to seek pragmatic foreign relations based on expanding trade, procuring investment and protecting the internal security of The Philippines against narco-terrorism, religious terrorism and far-left terrorism.
China is willing to further cooperation and promote development of bilateral relations with Tonga and the Philippines in the future, a high-level Chinese delegation has told senior Tongan and Philippine officials during separate visits to the two countries.
The parallels between China’s current $1.1 trillion Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the United States’ post-World War II foreign assistance are inexact but striking. Like the US in WWII, China was damaged by the 2008 global financial crisis but far less so than most other major economies, allowing it to initiate the BRI in 2013 while the rest of the world was still recovering
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