The senator and boxing legend has slammed President Rodrigo Duterte for not doing more in the face of China's maritime assertiveness.
Boxing legend Manny Pacquiao announced Sunday he will run for president in the Philippines. While he vowed to fight corruption, his bid could also have implications in a geopolitical hotspot: the South China Sea.
The famed athlete accepted nominations from political allies in his faction of the PDP-Laban Party, the current ruling party in the Philippines government."I am a fighter, and I will always be a fighter inside and outside the ring," Pacquiao said during a speech Sunday."I am accepting your nomination as candidate for president of the Republic of the Philippines."
In June Duterte dismissed Pacquiao's criticism, calling the fighter's foreign policy knowledge"shallow." Pacquiao responded,"I am a Filipino voicing out what needs to be said in defense of what has been adjudicated as rightfully ours."
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