President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. said he intends to talk to Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines Huang Xilian, and clarify the latter's 'surprising' statement about the overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Taiwan. ManilaBulletin
Huang called on the Philippines to oppose the supposed "Taiwan independence" by not giving American troops access to Philippine military bases if it "care[s] genuinely about the 150,000 OFWs" in the self-ruled island.Huang's statement stemmed from the establishment of four new additional Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement sites that would give American troops access to Philippine military bases.
"I interpret it as him trying to say that you should not-- the Philippines do not provoke or intensify the tensions because it will impact badly on the Filipinos. That's how I take it," he said. Marcos admitted that he was "surprised" by Huang's statement but thought it could be because English was not the envoy's first language.
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