While the policy supports the Constitutional provision on the integrity of the national territory. It ignores the obvious – China is an occupying foreign power in the West Philippine Sea. And our China policy do not explicitly enunciate this reality.
According to the DBM, the Duterte administration already released 93.2% of the 2022 National Budget, with only 6.7% for Pres Marcos Jr to spend.
As BBM assumes primus inter pares I want to write about the archetypes of people he must have. They are the “sine qua nons” for him to effectively lead.
In spite of all the endorsements, the wows, and ahhs over the economic team assembled by President-elect Marcos Jr, I am not impressed. The record of the economic managers are, at best, spotty except for incoming NEDA Secretary Arsenio Balisacan.
There is now a clear picture as who are in Pres-Elect Marcos’ economic team. Let us learn who they are.
Hours after Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr. was showing insurmountable lead over rival Vice President Leni Robredo, Chayong Camus of JP Morgan, a Wall Street investment banker, recommended a “sell” to stock investors in the Philippine Stock Exchange. Such recommendation forebodes negative prospects of the incoming Marcos administration.