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Philippine President to Meet With U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Amid APEC Summit

by Cobus van Staden
Both Chinese President Xi Jinping and Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. will be in San Francisco for this week's APEC summit. Loren Elliott / AFP

Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the president of the Philippines, will reportedly make a stop-off in Hawaii to visit the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command on his way back from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in San Francisco later this week.

Marcos is scheduled to meet with the commander of the Indo-Pacific Command, Adm. John Aquilino, and to give a speech on security policy.

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