LESS than a week after the presidential elections, the shape of things to come in the Philippines can already be seen. As the new governing team led by President-elect Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr., aka Bongbong Marcos or BBM for short, said, the winning team will "hit the ground running" as indeed it is expected to.

Speculations are raging on who will be tasked with the foreign affairs secretary job, given the actuations of the US and its lackey NATO to escalate intrusions into Asia-Pacific affairs. The reverberating and only name on the list at this time is retired UP professor Clarita Carlos who said upon announcement of the 2016 arbitral ruling: "Let's not flaunt this thing, and let's just be sober."

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