After meeting with top diplomats from the United States, Japan, South Korea, and India last week, incoming President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. outlined his approach toward China’s persistent incursions in the West Philippine Sea, serving notice that he would not allow “a single square millimeter” of Philippine territory to be trampled upon. This is certainly a welcome move to Filipinos rendered helpless by the Duterte administration’s policy of acquiescence toward Beijing, despite its duplicitous actions against its smaller neighbor. “Our sovereignty is sacred and we will not compromise it in any way,” Marcos Jr. said in an interview on Thursday.

A firm voice to China. (2022, May 31). Philippine Daily Inquirer, p. A6.