By MANILA — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. warned Monday that his country would be dragged “kicking and screaming” into any war over Taiwan, but must prepare for it. China considers self-ruled Taiwan, Manila’s closest neighbor to the north, to be part of its territory and has threatened to seize it by force.
In an interview with Indian news agency Firstpost during a state visit to New Delhi last week, Marcos said that in the event of a confrontation between China and the United States over Taiwan, “there is no way that the Philippines can stay out of it simply because of our physical geographic location”.
