SONA 2023 PROMISE TRACKER: FOREIGN RELATIONS
Marcos made 15 foreign trips to 11 countries during his second year in office and received an increased travel fund of P1.4 billion in the 2024 national budget.
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SONA 2022 PROMISE TRACKER: FOREIGN RELATIONS
Marcos admitted that the Philippines is walking a “very fine line” in balancing foreign relations. He said the Philippines must refrain from embracing the “cold war mentality” without having to choose between global powers such as the United States, Russia and China.
SONA 2020 Promise Tracker: Foreign Relations
In his penultimate State of the Nation Address (SONA) last year, President Rodrigo Duterte circled back to his promise of pursuing an independent foreign policy, stressing that his government would work with any nation “willing to engage us on the basis of equality and mutual respect.”
SONA 2019 Promise Tracker: Foreign Relations
The rising tensions with China in the West Philippine Sea hogged President Rodrigo Duterte’s fourth state of the nation address in 2019, where he promised two things that remain hanging to this day:
SONA 2018 Promise Tracker: Foreign relations
When President Rodrigo Duterte in his third State of the Nation Address (SONA) vowed to “continue to assert and pursue an independent policy,” he has done so in other fronts except for one: the territorial dispute with China in the West Philippine Sea.
SONA 2016 PROMISE TRACKER: Foreign relations
2016 SONA promises on foreign relations
