00:00And America has a new president after the victory of Donald Trump.
00:04And because the Philippines has been an ally of America for a long time,
00:08and millions of Filipinos are in America, the question is,
00:11what is the possible effect of this on the Philippines and the Filipinos?
00:15This is what Professor Antonio Contreras will point out from Punto de Vista, Professor.
00:26Thank you very much and good morning, Diane.
00:30Although we hope that nothing will change in the relationship between America and the Philippines,
00:36and our president and other officials of our country have already said that,
00:41we should also be prepared for possible changes.
00:45One thing we should be prepared for is the possibility of mass deportation of illegal immigrants
00:52because we know that there are Filipinos in America who are undocumented.
00:58We don't know how many they are.
01:00So if they are mass deported, we should be prepared for that.
01:04And the other thing we should be prepared for, we know that the policemen of the Republicans,
01:10they don't tend to look kindly to official development assistants, to military aid.
01:16So it is possible that the field of aid of America to the Philippines will change,
01:22especially in our military relationships.
01:26This is important because we know that in the West Philippines, America is there.
01:31We have a mutual defense agreement with America.
01:35So we should be prepared for this.
01:37Now, it's too early, but we should be thinking about it.
01:42President Marcos did a good thing by expanding the alliance in the West Philippines
01:48that is not only focused on America.
01:50And that is the expansion of our friendship, our network,
01:56including Japan, Australia, the European Union, and other countries.
02:00That is the right step.
02:02We should not put our economic and military fee in America
02:10because there might be a lot of changes here.
02:13We should be careful if the changes made by the Republicans and Donald Trump
02:19are not in line with our interests.
02:21We are hoping that nothing will change.
02:24But it is better to be prepared.
02:27That is all for this morning.
02:29Go back to the studio, Diane.
02:31And good morning to all of you.
02:35Thank you very much, Professor Antonio Contreras.
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