With Bongbong Marcos in China vowing he intends to pursue an independent foreign policy - one more than willing to cooperate whenever possible in the pursuit of regional peace and our two countries’ national interest - wonder | wander | world is wary of what exactly this means.
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The BBM administration independent foreign policy is broadly outlined as friends to all, enemy to none. As with his unity campaign it brings concerns regarding implementation and doability. Big words that may or may not deliver their intended outcome. An air pie and wind cake smokescreen for the masses.
Stratbase ADR Institute President Victor Andres “Dindo” Manhit and Dr. Chester Cabalza, International Development and Security Cooperation president and founder, discussed these in the book “Beyond the Crisis: A Strategic Agenda for the Next President.”
Compiled and published by Stratbase ADRI, their papers are among 16 policy studies written by experts in the fields of foreign policy, the economy and development, and governance.
According to these studies, “We need a more responsive and strategic foreign policy that would implement a clear, cohesive, and consistent foreign policy direction and develop the country’s comprehensive power according to its military, economic, scientific, and cultural capabilities.”
The devil in the details - cause for many to doubt this ineffective and inefficient BBM administration incapable of attaining or delivering on.
