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Opinion > Columns
Marcos' Taiwan boo-boo 'will have consequences'
By Rigoberto D. Tiglao
Jan 19, 2024 12:09 am

IT would be difficult to find in history a more colossal, unnecessary boo-boo than President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. congratulating, as his X post put it, 'President-elect Lai Ching-te on his election as Taiwan's next president.'

That has rankled China so much that a Chinese Embassy official remarked: 'This will have consequences.' He didn't elaborate, but sources in the diplomatic community agreed that a drastic response from China can be expected.

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