The Manchurian candidate: why China’s interest in the Philippine election is under scrutiny as Duterte prepares to leave officeUnited States & Canada – South China Morning Post

Source: United States & Canada – South China Morning PostAs the last year of President Rodrigo Duterte’s term winds down, the list of candidates to replace him after next May’s election poses a troubling question for the Philippines: might one of them be a “Manchurian candidate”?That term, for a politician used as a puppet by a foreign or hostile power, was made famous by a 1959 fictional Cold War thriller in which the son of an American political family returns from service in the Korean war having been brainwashed by Chinese and Russian communists…Read More

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