'Pariah' PH and 'potpot' patriots

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FROM 2016 to 2022, then-president Rodrigo Duterte was the star of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the non-Western part of the world. Here was a president who played a key role in the historic transition from the 500-year period of Western colonialism to the now-rising multipolar world. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has reversed this historic position, and in the 10 months since February, the Philippines has become a pariah to the world.