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Marcos keynotes IISS Shangri-la Dialogue in Singapore | Highlights 4/4  President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. delivers his keynote speech at the IISS Shangri-la Dialogue in Singapore on May 31, 2024 where he discussed, among others the Philippines' ongoing dispute with China, Asean centrality, the 'seven realities' in dealing with the conflict and what action his government would take if a Filipino dies during one of the China Coast Guard's incursions.  Video Courtesy of RTVM  Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - https://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe   Visit our website at https://www.manilatimes.net   Follow us:  Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook  Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram  Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter  DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion   Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital   Check out our Podcasts:  Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify  Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts  Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic  Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer  Stitcher: https://tmt.ph/stitcher Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein  #themanilatimes  #tmtnews  #bongbongmarcos  #iiss

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00:00 President Marcos, I'm going to ask you a very direct question if you don't mind,

00:03 which is if Chinese Coast Guard water cannons killed a Filipino sailor, would

00:09 that cross a red line? And then can you also give us a sense of what are the

00:13 actions that would trigger a request from Manila to Washington to invoke the

00:17 US-Philippines Mutual Defense Treaty? Thank you.

00:20 If there was an incident that ended up killing a Filipino serviceman, be them be

00:28 the Coast Guard or in the military and by part of the Navy, well that

00:35 would certainly increase the level of response.

00:45 And if by a willful act, a Filipino, not only serviceman, but even a

00:57 Filipino citizen, if a Filipino citizen is killed by a willful

01:03 act, that is I think very very close to what we define as an act of war and

01:11 therefore we will respond accordingly. And our treaty partners, I believe, also

01:17 hold that same standard for when the actions, the joint action will be

01:25 undertaken in support of any such incident in the Philippines.

01:32 We already have suffered injury, but thank God we have not

01:39 yet gotten to the point where any of our participants, civilian or otherwise, have

01:47 been killed. But once we get to that point, that is certainly, we would have

01:52 crossed the Rubicon. Certainly crossed the Rubicon. Is that a red line?

01:56 Almost certainly it's going to be a red line.

02:00 [Silence]

Marcos keynotes IISS Shangri-la Dialogue in Singapore | Highlights 4/4

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