Marcos: Asia-Pacific countries can prosper without them 'taking sides'

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President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. has called on Asia-Pacific countries to start charting their own destiny far from the intense geopolitical rivalry in the region.

Marcos said this during a luncheon hosted for him and Filipino business leaders by the economic team in Davos. The President is in Switzerland for the 2023 World Economic Forum .

The Cold War forced countries to choose whether to be under the Soviet Union or the United States spheres of influence. “Because we are anchored in the idea that the future of the Indo-Pacific, the future of Asia-Pacific, cannot be determined by anyone but the countries of the Asia-Pacific. That removes us immediately from that idea that you must choose; we choose our friends, we choose our neighbors, that’s the choice that we will make,” he added.

Pointing to the Philippines as an example, the President said the pandemic brought the country back to the basics, in which it could no longer depend on importation to survive.

 

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