All good friends: US secretary of defense Lloyd Austin visits the president of the Phllippines, Ferdinand Marcos Jnr.
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Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos is playing a delicate game of great power relations between Beijing and Washington.
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Newly elected Philippines president Bongbong Marcos faces huge challenges, and a backdrop of his father’s dictatorship.
Politics is the Marcos family business.
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Bongbong Marcos is the projected winner of the Philippines election. That the son of a brutal dictator has won shows how wedded the country is to dynastic politics – and image manipulation.
Hello again: Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos son of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, after declaring for president.
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The 2022 Philippines presidential election could be a battle between, or an alliance of, two controversial political dynasties.
The preserved body of late former president Ferdinand Marcos lies in public view in a mausoleum in his home province in northern Philippines.
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The government’s decision to bury Ferdinand Marcos in the national Cemetery for Heroes illustrates the contested nature of the dictator’s legacy.