The Philippines, it has a politics of patronage. Family and favors, in addition to the old cliche of guns, goons and gold, really do still hold a lot of sway.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The Philippines is strategically located and blessed with the greatest resource: its people, who are hard-working, very loyal, and very adaptive.
China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
The Philippines, it might be said, is a country in search of an identity.
Russia - having sat across the table from Vladimir Putin, it's pretty clear when you meet him that he has an almost limitless ambition for power. And he's been very good at acquiring it - political power, economic power, military power, territorial power.
The Philippines is a country in which a man of morals can't be president, in which a politician who hasn't been linked to any wrongdoing isn't assumed to be honest, but merely better at hiding his corruption.
Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.
I love my homeland, but it's an absurd country. Politics in the Philippines is like spectator sports!
China... has the capacity to ensure its stability and growth.
New York... where people come for their Ph.D. in corruption.
For me, Venezuela is very important, not just because it's a place I go to conduct, but because my family is there - my wife, my parents and my musical family.
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