Jimu news reporter Song Qingying
According to a number of foreign media reports, on June 24, local time, former Philippine President Benigno Aquino III died in a hospital in Manila at the age of 61. Aquino III was president of the Philippines from 2010 to 2016.
His six-year term has been questioned at home and abroad. At the beginning of his term of office, the hostage crisis in manila, the capital of the Philippines, led to the death of eight Hong Kong tourists, and his smile in the press conference triggered anger, and he was called "smiling president". During his term of office, the "Huangyan Island Confrontation Incident" broke out between China and the Philippines, provoking the so-called "South China Sea arbitration", and Sino-Philippine relations fell into a low point.
Hong Kong hostage-taking incident (Source: Nanyang Morning Post)
Aquino, who was killed in Hong Kong, smiled, and Sino-Philippine relations fell into a freezing point in the Huangyan Island incident
On August 23, 2010, a tour bus carrying 22 passengers from Hong Kong, China, was hijacked by former Philippine police near the Grand Stand in Kirino, downtown Manila, Philippines, killing eight Hong Kong tourists.
On the evening of August 23, 2010, Aquino III held a press conference to say that a "thorough investigation" would be launched into the hijacking of a Hong Kong tourist car in Manila. But Aquino III smiled at the press conference and in subsequent visits. His defense is to express anger with a smile, which arouses questions and indignation among Chinese people around the world.
In August 2012, two years after the killing of Hong Kong hostages in the Philippines, the Aquino authorities still refused to apologize.
On April 8, 2012, the Philippine Navy illegally entered Huangyan Island to arrest Chinese fishermen and seize fishing boats, and then we sent ships to the area and began a month-long standoff with the Philippine Navy.
The Aquino administration even provoked so-called "South China Sea arbitration," and on April 25, 2012, the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs announced that it would go to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea with China. In May, President Aquino III spokesman Edwin Rachel said the Philippines officially referred to Scarborough Shoal as "Panatag Reef." As a result, Sino-Philippine relations have fallen into a low point. On May 13, the Chinese side suspended tourism to the Philippines, and all Chinese tourists in the Philippines left.
The analysis believes that before 1997, the Philippines has never raised any objection to the Chinese government's exercise of sovereign jurisdiction over Huangyan Dao and its development and utilization. During his term of office, Aquino III pursued a pro-American line, fiercely clashed with neighboring countries in disputes in the South China Sea, and constantly created incidents in the waters of Huangyan Island in China's Zhongsha. Behind the Philippines' move against Scarborough Shoal is the result of its strategic choice to continuously expand the "enclosure" in the South China Sea.
South China Sea dispute (Source: Nanyang Morning Post)
The president's son, he was shot 5 times and 3 bodyguards were killed
Aquino was born on February 8, 1960, the only son in the family. He graduated in economics from Ateneo de Manila University, worked in the family sugar industry, and worked as a retail executive in Nike's Philippines division.
Foreign media said that Aquino spent most of his life in the shadow of his parents.
Aquino's mother, Corazon Aquino, left him a huge political legacy. Corrazon served as President of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992.
He entered Philippine politics in 1998 and served three terms of the House of Representatives from 1998 to 2007, representing the sugar-producing province of Tarlac in northern Manila.
Corrazon died in 2009, and on June 30, 2010, Aquino III was elected with a 42.08% vote to succeed Arroyo as the 15th President of the Philippines.
The identity of the president's son also brought fatal dangers to Aquino III. In 1987, a military coup d'état broke out in the Philippines that toppled his mother's government, killing him five times and injuring three of his bodyguards.
Since 2019, Aquino has been suffering from a variety of diseases. He has been on dialysis for at least five months and recently had a heart surgery.
Aquino III (Source: Nanyang Morning Post)
During his tenure, domestic crises continued
CNN also said Aquino's six-year term was fraught with domestic crises. In 2015, the Philippines arrested a Malaysian suspect suspected of involvement in the 2002 Bali bombings. Aquino III was accused of failing to command, indirectly killing 44 police commandos.
In November 2013, Typhoon Haiyan devastated central Philippines, killing more than 6,000 people and destroying countless towns and villages.
The failure of the Aquino III administration to improve the Philippines' dilapidated public infrastructure has led to hours-long traffic jams that have sparked public disappointment.
According to Reuters, his image as "Mr. Incorruptible" collapsed in 2013 following a scandal over the abuse of public funds by lawmakers.
Aquino III officially stepped down as President on 30 June 2016.
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