WHAT a president.

It turns out that it was President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. who authorized — or even ordered — the implementation of a "new model" proposed by China to de-escalate tensions in Ayungin Shoal that resulted, after the Philippines unilaterally abandoned the model, in the water-cannoning of Philippine Coast Guard vessels and hired civilian ships that tried to supply the BRP Sierra Madre stuck in the area.

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