Richard Heydarian is an incoming lecturer with the Asian Center of the University of the Philippines and the author of "The Indo-Pacific: Trump, China and the New Struggle for Global Mastery."
"In the area of foreign policy, I will not preside over any process that will abandon even one square inch of territory of the Republic of the Philippines to any foreign power," President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. declared this week in his first State of the Nation address.
