The weird thing is the rest of ASEAN kind of moved on at least in loud public rhetoric regarding South China Sea issues. The Philippines seems to continue pushing this way only against China not other claimants or parties in the SCS. Given Filipino societal structure with corruption in the top they seem to be the back up Asian Ukraine if the DPP fails with Taiwan.
Also if you hear western commentators regarding Ukraine they seem to think that after the Ukraine spring/summer counter offensive fails or succeed Russia will just let them rebuild a fourth or fifth army or give up. So i wouldn't be so surprised that the west thinks China will not attack or else the whole region will gather behind the Philippines. I think this will be a big mistake from the west and BBM regime.
Marcos Jr. is the Zelinsky of ASEAN/Asia. The man was elected with a considerable if not, outright historic landslide victory and his foreign policy was tacked and announced as balanced and not to be used by America as a pawn against China. Watch his speeches, his debate statements and prior statements on the Philippine-China relationship and the American constant meddling.
Now compared that to Zelensky, a man who campaigned on peace with Russia where he was elected overwhelmingly as well based on the false promise of peace and then 3 years later the War in Europe.
