Ferdinand Marcos Jr. was elected president of the Philippines last year. Now he hopes to reverse his family's status as international pariahs.
When Marcos Jr. was elected, Biden called
The two countries are defense treaty allies, but have had some “rocky times,” Biden said after meeting with Marcos Jr. for the first time in September when the Philippine president traveled to New York for the U.N. General Assembly.“We can do a lot together,” Biden said. “I’m desperately interested in making sure we do.”
“If we are totally identified with a corrupt, discredited regime that does not have the support of its people, we may be able to hold on to our bases in the short term but we will so alienate the people that we will lose them in the long run,” Biden said at the time,For those who lived under Marcos Sr.
“The U.S. has done this before. [It] didn’t care about the human rights record of the Philippines so long as Marcos was able to safeguard the military bases,” said Aries Arugay, chairman of the political science department at the University of the Philippines in Diliman.In September, when Marcos Jr. visited the United Nations, Filipino Americans staged protests in Washington and Manhattan.
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