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

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos warned Monday that his country would be dragged "kicking and screaming" into any war over Taiwan, but must prepare for it."So inevitably, despite our fervent wish to avoid any confrontation with anybody,

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