Kit Tatad, former Senator and former Press Secretary to President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines (father of the current President Marcos), published a commentary today in the Manila Times under the title “What’s the Deal with Beijing?” covering the current visit of President Marcos to China and the extremely productive and friendly agreements reached, in spite of the significant anti-China diatribes coming from the Biden Administration. Tatad reviews the trip of former President Marcos to China, in the midst of a global isolation of China by the U.S./British cabal at the time, establishing relations and winning China’s pledge not to support the various communist insurgencies then active in the Philippines.
Tatad adds: “In 1986, the mutinous military ousted [Marcos] in an elaborate `people power’ revolt instigated, according to Lyndon LaRouche’s Executive Intelligence Review, by U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz and his deputy, Paul Wolfowitz. In his 1993 memoirs, Turmoil and Triumph, Shultz talks proudly of his role in ousting Marcos.”
Tatad concludes his article as follows: “What can Marcos Jr. possibly learn from his father’s historic visit? For starters, he can learn that China’s top communist leaders are not beyond making a `deal’ in their own national interest. BBM [Marcos] must now show he’s also capable of making a deal in his country’s supreme national interest, and that he has the courage and the wisdom to decide exactly what that is. This visit presents the opportunity and the challenge.” (https://www.manilatimes.net/2023/01/04/opinion/columns/whats-the-deal-with-beijing/1872711 )
