The Australian-Filipino strategic partnership is contrived in hypermasculine terms. What we are witnessing is hypermasculine envy and competition over who has more power and dominion to control.
Australia–Philippines relations received a significant boost during Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s visit to the Philippines in early September 2023 — marking the first visit by an Australian prime minister since 2003.
The core of the South China Sea dispute is China’s nine, now ten-dash line, which encloses about 85.7% of the South China Sea. China’s ten-dash line has a dual purpose, as a maritime claim and as a territorial claim.
Globally, only 26 women serve as heads of government and state. Progress has been made to increase women’s participation in Cop events, but gender parity in climate leadership is estimated to be achieved only in 2068.
Marcos Jr. may appear less threatening than Rodrigo Duterte to Philippine democracy but that is because the threat is shifting online.
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