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“We are facing a more complex foreign situation in the Philippines. Like what I said, that in this part of the world, here in the Philippines, South China Sea, among all issues, it is said to be the most complicated geopolitical situation,” the President said in a mix of English and Filipino.

“Even if there is war in Ukraine, the South China Sea is said to be the most difficult and most complicated problem. That is why I said the mission of the AFP has changed. We need to safeguard those that we did not need to think much about u PAGE 2

Del Rosario: Marcos

‘taking proper steps in defending’ West PH Sea

by Nestor Corrales Inquirer.net

CEBU CITY — Calling the tensions in the South China Sea “the most complex geopolitical situation in the world,” President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. called on the Armed Forces of the Philippines to “guard carefully” the country’s territory, amid the unabated Chinese incursions into the West Philippine Sea, the area within the country’s exclusive economic zone. Meanwhile, former Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario said the President was “taking proper steps in defending the rights of the Philippines in the West Philippine Sea.”

Addressing government troops in one of several activities during his visit here on Monday, February 27, Mr. Marcos said the country now “fac[es] a more complex foreign situation.”

“There was a time [when] we did not have to worry about these threats and the intensification of the competition between the superpowers,” he said, adding that “we were able to maintain that peace and maintain