Richard Heydarian is a senior lecturer at the Asian Center of the University of the Philippines and author of "The Indo-Pacific: Trump, China and the New Struggle for Global Mastery."
Nearly a year into his presidency, Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. has so far shied from either following in the footsteps of his strongman father or wholeheartedly repudiating his authoritarian legacy and that of immediate predecessor Rodrigo Duterte.
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