President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. would make a state visit to Japan early in 2023 ahead of a similar visit to China, Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin revealed in an interview with Kyodo News on Monday.
Mr. Marcos attaches “great importance” to visiting Japan, the biggest source of official development assistance for the Philippines, Lucas Bersamin told the Tokyo-based news agency in his first interview with foreign media as the Cabinet’s “little President.”
Bersamin said the President is looking to Japan for continued collaboration on clean energy, infrastructure, agriculture, food security, and maritime security in the South China Sea, to which China has sweeping and overlapping claims with the Philippines and other countries.He said the President may ask for more help from Japan with regard to patrol boats, saying that “our coastlines will have to be defended.
Mr. Marcos and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida first met in September on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, and arrangements have been underway for the Philippine leader’s trip to Japan, it added. The President will raise the South China Sea issue as well as post-pandemic economic recovery and transformation in his Asean meetings in Phnom Penh, Foreign Affairs Assistant Secretary Daniel Espiritu noted previously.
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