Marcos Jr. leading Philippines adds new twist to storied relationship with US
Published on: Saturday 14 May 2022
The overwhelming victory of the namesake son of the late Ferdinand Marcos to a six-year term as president of the Philippines confronts U.S. diplomats and policymakers with an extremely tricky puzzle: how to begin to reconcile with the heir to a corrupt dictator in whose downfall the U.S. was complicit. And how can they hopeā¦