JAKARTA ¨C The decisive victory of Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in the Philippines¡¯ presidential election on Monday is set to re-shape the Southeast Asian country¡¯s relations with China and the United States as he seeks closer ties with Beijing.
Marcos, the son and namesake of the country¡¯s former dictator, has long-standing ties with China and is seeking a new deal with Chinese ruler Xi Jinping over contested waters of the South China Sea.
Marcos¡¯s relations with the United States, on the other hand, are complicated by a contempt of court order for his refusal to cooperate with the District Court of Hawaii, which in 1995 ordered the Marcos family to pay $2 billion (?260.75 billion) of plundered wealth to victims of Marcos Sr.¡¯s rule.
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