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Espekulasyon na may epekto sa ekonomiya ang Trilateral Summit, isinantabi ng Pangulo
Espekulasyon na may epekto sa ekonomiya ang Trilateral Summit, isinantabi ng Pangulo
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00:00 President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has not yet confirmed the statements of former President Rodrigo Duterte against him.
00:07 In front of him, the President said that the so-called "Gentleman's Agreement" between the Philippines and China in the last administration should be clarified.
00:17 Alan Francisco will return to the center of the news.
00:21 So now, with the confirmation of the Chinese embassy, we now know that there was a secret agreement.
00:31 That is what President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. gave in connection with the so-called secret agreement of the administration of former President Rodrigo Duterte and China against Ayungin Shoal in the West Philippine Sea.
00:44 In an interview with President Marcos in Washington, D.C., he said that he has questions about the so-called "Gentleman's Agreement".
00:52 First, if there is really an agreement, what is it about, and why is it a secret?
00:58 What was the promise of the Duterte administration to China?
01:04 Because we don't know yet. We just now realized that there is really an agreement.
01:13 They call it "Gentleman's Agreement". I call it "Secret Agreement".
01:17 The President is wondering why, like former President Duterte, a lawyer, decided not to document, record, or announce the agreement.
01:27 We don't know. There is no document.
01:30 I don't understand. President Duterte is a very experienced lawyer.
01:35 All lawyers want to document everything.
01:40 Why is there no document, not even a single document?
01:43 Why is there no video? Why is there no announcement? Nothing.
01:48 Now, President Marcos is ready to talk to Duterte to discuss this.
01:54 Send it to me. And then we'll sit down. Send those documents to me.
01:58 And then we'll sit down and discuss it. I'll do my homework first.
02:03 That's the way I work. I read all the material first so that when I'm actually in the meeting conference, I can ask intelligent questions.
02:15 So, send me the material personally to me.
02:19 Not to DOJ, DFA, but to me.
02:23 Send it to me. We have a lot of common friends.
02:26 Send them to me. I'll do my homework. Then we'll talk.
02:31 President Duterte also disagreed with the idea of entering a secret agreement in China that could put the country in danger.
02:39 It should be known by all the local officials. It should be known by everyone.
02:44 Because that way, you're accountable.
02:50 If it's a bad decision, you're accountable.
02:53 You'll say that you did something wrong.
02:57 What are you hiding? Why didn't you say it?
03:02 What are you hiding? Why was it secret?
03:05 And in the suggestion that President Marcos should ask his cabinet,
03:09 particularly National Secretary Advisor Eduardo Año,
03:13 who was the former DILG Secretary in the Duterte administration,
03:16 the President's answer?
03:17 As the NSC.
03:19 We've talked about it.
03:20 He's not included in the discussion.
03:24 He was part of the cabinet, but he wasn't part of the discussion.
03:30 So he said that he had some vague knowledge that we were talking to China.
03:38 The President also did not allow the former President Duterte to personally attack him.
03:44 Yeah, I saw that.
03:46 You know, to be a crybaby, you have to cry.
03:48 Did you see me cry?
03:53 I don't pay any attention to that.
03:57 I really don't.
03:58 That means that means absolutely nothing to me.
04:02 And you know, again, the former President is a highly experienced lawyer.
04:08 He should know that ad hominem attacks like that are really have no place in this kind of a very important
04:16 and very precarious discussions.
04:24 President Marcos defended Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte
04:30 in favor of his silence on the South China Sea issue.
04:33 According to President Marcos, the government is a part of VP Sara,
04:37 but it is not in the agenda of the opposition as a secretarygeneral to discuss China.
04:43 That's not the role of a Vice President or a Secretary of Education to talk about China.
04:49 So I think we are all in line because I'm very sure that if Inday Sara had some very serious misgivings
04:59 about what we are doing in terms of foreign policy, she will bring them to me.
05:04 And she will not say, "I'm just doing my job."
05:10 Well, that's a good policy.
05:13 So I don't think that it's something that we need to be concerned with.
05:18 The President also supported the speculation that the trilateral agreement between the Philippines,
05:22 the United States and Japan could affect the influence of China's economy in the country.
05:28 This is separate from any proposed or potential Chinese investments in the Philippines.
05:37 How do I see how it will affect?
05:40 I don't see that it will affect one way or the other.
05:44 President Marcos strengthened his alliance with the United States and Japan
05:47 that he will give importance to the future of the Indo-Pacific region.
05:52 From Washington, D.C., Alan Francisco for Pambansang TV in Bagong, Philippines.