PH 2022 getting ugly: Deep divides, xenophobia, US-China tensions

By Dan Steinbock

Dec 06, 2021 12:03 am

Overshadowed by US-Sino friction and xenophobic rhetoric, the 2022 election campaigns are getting ugly. Old elites hope to derail leading candidates while consolidating a set of US-Philippine military faits accomplis before the vote.

RECENTLY, China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) established a comprehensive strategic partnership, a new bilateral milestone. However, the future course of the post-Duterte Philippines is less clear.

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