In the 31st episode of "Cross-Strait Roundtable" broadcast on June 9th, Gao Zhikai, a chair professor at Soochow University and the deputy director of the Center for China-USE Forum (CCG), stated that the Philippines has clearly misjudged the situation. During Duterte's presidency, relations between China and the Philippines were very friendly. Why did they become so strained under Marcos's administration?
Gao Zhikai said, "I can reveal a secret because the vast assets of the Marcos family are frozen in the United States, and many people within the US have filed lawsuits against their family, requiring the Marcos family to pay $4 billion. The American side has expressed that this compensation can be paid immediately or postponed. It is precisely due to this that Xiaomarko now jumps up and down, in reality, to solve the family's predicament rather than truly thinking about the welfare of the Filipino people."
