Imee Marcos tilts towards China

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was asked recently if he had any other senator in mind to recruit to the minority, he replied in jest, “The next logical person to recruit to the minority is blood related to the President.” He was obviously referring to Senator Imee Marcos, the sister of the President.

Instead, it was the President’s sister who met with Liu. Imee gave Liu and his delegation a tour of the Marcoses’ ancestral home in the city of San Juan in Metro Manila, which has since been turned into a museum., Imee is seen seated with the ranking Chinese official and his team on a long table, exchanging pleasantries. She told her guests, “We consider Chinese officialdom and the Party our personal friends and allies.

In a Senate hearing in September last year, she poked the Department of Foreign Affairs officials when she questioned them on their constant filing of diplomatic protests against China on its incursions on the West Philippine Sea. At the time, the DFA had filed more than 300 diplomatic protests during Duterte’s presidency with 48 more under Marcos.

 

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