US, Philippines flex alliance in heat of Taiwan crisis
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MANILA – Philippine President Ferdinand ily’s longstanding and often fraught relations with the US when he warmly welcomed US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to the Malacanang Palace over the weekend.
The meeting was held in the same halls that the Marcoses fled 36 years earlier aboard a US Air Force plane in order to escape the wrath of the “people power” revolution that toppled Marcos Jr’s father’s once menacing dictatorship.