{"id":34394,"date":"2023-08-08T14:51:32","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T12:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/europeanvalues.cz\/?p=34394"},"modified":"2024-03-11T15:32:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T13:32:24","slug":"ec-president-von-der-leyen-visits-philippines-amid-weak-beijing-manila-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/europeanvalues.cz\/en\/ec-president-von-der-leyen-visits-philippines-amid-weak-beijing-manila-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"EC President von der Leyen Visits Philippines Amid Weak Beijing-Manila Ties"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"34394\" class=\"elementor elementor-34394\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-76528b78 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"76528b78\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6257941f\" data-id=\"6257941f\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-420b0d24 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"420b0d24\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-no-translation=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-36969858\" data-id=\"36969858\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7521a152 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7521a152\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2>What is going on?<\/h2><p>During her last week\u2019s visit to the Philippines, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivered a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mailing.europeanvalues.cz\/link\/c\/YT0yMjc2NzAzODg3MjIwMDE3MTQwJmM9bDR4NCZlPTc2MDQ0OTk0JmI9MTE4NTk5MTU3OSZkPWs3ZjNpNGg=.mQtKfAiAzDRKRK3XX7ZDzbuC1RBmYLbDplN-zpzf-GI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">keynote speech<\/a>\u00a0in which she directly\u00a0<strong>pummeled China for challenging the global order.<\/strong>\u00a0Speaking at the Philippines Business Forum, von der Leyen asserted that China \u201chas yet to assume fully its responsibility under the UN Charter to uphold the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine.\u201d She cautioned that China\u2019s show of military force in the south and east China seas, and in the Taiwan Strait, may have \u201c<strong>global repercussions<\/strong>,\u201d while underscoring that the EU has been enhancing its engagement in the Indo-Pacific. The speech took place amid a\u00a0<strong>widening chasm between Manila and Beijing<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>under President Ferdinand \u201cBongbong\u201d R. Marcos Jr.<\/p><h2>\u00a0<\/h2><h2>What is the broader picture?<\/h2><p>The period following former President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s rise to power marked a\u00a0<strong>honeymoon period<\/strong>\u00a0in relations between Manila and Beijing. Moving away from the hawkish China stance of his predecessor, Benigno Aquino III, the populist leader performed a reset of his country\u2019s ties with the PRC, which was aimed primarily at securing funding for Duterte\u2019s flagship infrastructure development program\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mailing.europeanvalues.cz\/link\/c\/YT0yMjc2NzAzODg3MjIwMDE3MTQwJmM9bDR4NCZlPTc2MDQ0OTk0JmI9MTE4NTk5MTU4NyZkPXQ4djR1OG8=.CLFADaCpStSNpHb5Jo7AkEWI_3ki0fEHMa6K2yiTPrk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Build, Build, Build<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0with the price tag of 160 million USD. The Duterte administration deemed China\u2019s Belt and Road Initiative as an attractive source of funds for the projects. Moreover, the deepening of ties in Beijing took place in parallel to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mailing.europeanvalues.cz\/link\/c\/YT0yMjc2NzAzODg3MjIwMDE3MTQwJmM9bDR4NCZlPTc2MDQ0OTk0JmI9MTE4NTk5MTU5NCZkPXU1dzdqNGY=.40ThRUHwkGjBLH-WUofp9Hzgq5Ia8MVf-6wfA0m6BaI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">decoupling<\/a>\u00a0from the US, a\u00a0<strong>process fueled by Duterte\u2019s<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mailing.europeanvalues.cz\/link\/c\/YT0yMjc2NzAzODg3MjIwMDE3MTQwJmM9bDR4NCZlPTc2MDQ0OTk0JmI9MTE4NTk5MTYwMyZkPXY2ajZhNms=.dkXqyCTRgPPakfexPe8yXEBf_RiYgrs0IlAGaheKa60\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>anti-American sentiment<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p><p>Yet, Chinese promises of lucrative economic deals remained largely\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mailing.europeanvalues.cz\/link\/c\/YT0yMjc2NzAzODg3MjIwMDE3MTQwJmM9bDR4NCZlPTc2MDQ0OTk0JmI9MTE4NTk5MTYxMiZkPXA4aTd0NHg=.A93WrhccLmCueCUhYTSifw_-mmFJzuSEA5rkjDQgHgo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unfulfilled<\/a>. Additionally, China perpetuated its harassment of the Philippines Coast Guard, particularly in the vicinity of the Scarborough Shoal. The growing maritime tensions also led to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mailing.europeanvalues.cz\/link\/c\/YT0yMjc2NzAzODg3MjIwMDE3MTQwJmM9bDR4NCZlPTc2MDQ0OTk0JmI9MTE4NTk5MTYxOSZkPWU1bTVzNGE=.76mJZBPeXFNfgRgAK78-ql2ASD1fAcRgkQp37SBFGFQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reed Bank incident<\/a>, which saw a suspected Chinese maritime militia sinking a Filipino fishing vessel.\u00a0In fact, maritime tensions between China and the Philippines escalated on August 5 as the Philippine Coast Guard accused Chinese Coast Guard of trespassing in its waters and firing water cannons at its ships. Towards the end of his administration, Duterte reversed the direction of his foreign policy back towards Washington,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mailing.europeanvalues.cz\/link\/c\/YT0yMjc2NzAzODg3MjIwMDE3MTQwJmM9bDR4NCZlPTc2MDQ0OTk0JmI9MTE4NTk5MTYyNyZkPWoweDdtN3I=.wXkbWjOISEGov-PW4dpd52pAUY1854BAzNqqrYp_0Ls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rendering<\/a>\u00a0the Philippines the\u00a0<strong>largest recipient of US military assistance in the Indo-Pacific region<\/strong>.<\/p><p>Consequently, the current Marcos administration largely shapes the Philippines\u2019 foreign policy by continuing the trajectory established in the last year of the Duterte administration \u2013 rekindling positive relations with the US and distancing the country from China.<\/p><h2>\u00a0<\/h2><h2>Why does it matter?<\/h2><p>The European Union seeks to capitalize on the policy reversal in Manila as it views the Philippines as an\u00a0<strong>important partner<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>in the Indo-Pacific region.\u00a0<\/p><p>Critically, during von der Leyen\u2019s visit to Manila, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mailing.europeanvalues.cz\/link\/c\/YT0yMjc2NzAzODg3MjIwMDE3MTQwJmM9bDR4NCZlPTc2MDQ0OTk0JmI9MTE4NTk5MTYzMiZkPWIxbTN4OW4=.YFbqrvhL7MSxBreGKE3P-_MTEiDNome5Kz_w2p6-2VU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resumption<\/a> of talks on a bilateral\u00a0<strong>free trade agreement\u00a0<\/strong>(FTA) was announced. While the EU-Philippines free trade negotiations began in 2015, they were halted in 2017 under the Duterte administration due to a rift over his human rights record and a bloody anti-drug campaign.\u00a0<\/p><p>The resumption of trade talks signals that Brussels, and specifically von der Leyen\u2019s \u201cgeopolitical Commission,\u201d increasingly views the Philippines as a\u00a0<strong>key political and economic partner in the Indo-Pacific<\/strong>. The expansion of ties between Manila and Washington, amid the cooling of the former\u2019s ties with Beijing, facilitates this change in perception. Additionally, the Philippines is notably<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>the world&#8217;s second-largest producer of nickel<\/strong>, identified as both a critical raw material and a strategic raw material, yet the exports are poorly diversified with 90 percent of them headed to China. The rerouting of exports could diminish the vulnerability faced by the Philippines, while simultaneously facilitating the process of\u00a0<strong>de-risking<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>through\u00a0<strong>supply chain diversification<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>for the EU.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is going on? During her last week\u2019s visit to the Philippines, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivered a\u00a0keynote speech\u00a0in which she directly\u00a0pummeled China for challenging the global order.\u00a0Speaking at the Philippines Business Forum, von der Leyen asserted that China \u201chas yet to assume fully its responsibility under the UN Charter to uphold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":34395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[500],"tags":[495],"class_list":["post-34394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-marcin-jerzewski"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>EC President von der Leyen Visits Philippines Amid Weak Beijing-Manila Ties - European Values Center for Security Policy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/europeanvalues.cz\/en\/ec-president-von-der-leyen-visits-philippines-amid-weak-beijing-manila-ties\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"EC President von der Leyen Visits Philippines Amid Weak Beijing-Manila Ties - European Values Center for Security Policy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"What is going on? 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