Several Filipino organizations from the Bay Area rallied Monday outside of the Philippine Consulate General in San Francisco to condemn Philippine President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. after he delivered the annual state address in his country.
Several Filipino organizations from the Bay Area rallied Monday outside of the Philippine Consulate General in San Francisco to condemn Philippine President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. after he delivered the annual state address in his country. One direction of traffic on the 450-500 block of Sutter Street was blocked off with about 100 activists of Filipino American groups mobilizing in front of the consulate.
military aid in the Indo-Pacific region, receiving over $1.14 billion in defense assistance from the U.S. since 2015, according to the U.S. Embassy in the Philippines. Marcos Jr. and the U.S. Department of Defense have said that U.S. military aid to the Philippines is needed to defend against Chinese interference in the West Philippine Sea. The West Philippine Sea is a part of the South China Sea which the Philippines marks as its exclusive maritime territory.
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