Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said Monday his country would inevitably be drawn “kicking and screaming” into any war over Taiwan due to its proximity to the self-ruled island and the presence of large numbers of Filipino workers there,

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said on Monday that Beijing has "misinterpreted" his comments saying Manila will be inevitably drawn in to a conflict between China and Taiwan should one erupt.

Hope is not a plan,’ says Marcos, reacting to Beijing’s claim that he was ‘fudging and hollowing out the one-China principle’ in saying the Philippines could not sit out of conflict over independently