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THREAD: President-elect Bongbong Marcos picks a retired UP professor and geopolitics expert as his national security adviser.

@iampinkywebb speaks to incoming National Security Adviser Clarita Carlos on #TheSource | LIVE cnn.ph/3O2eX0Y

Incoming National Security Adviser Clarita Carlos on meeting with Marcos: It was my first time speaking to him outside of the debate framework. Marami kaming pinagusapan, lagpas isang oras na pala. It was only at the end that he asked me to be his adviser.

Incoming National Security Adviser Clarita Carlos: Marcos and I agreed on many security issues, which is a good start

Incoming National Security Adviser Clarita Carlos: My training as a political scientist will come in handy. You try to understand where China is coming from, but they also have to understand us, then we find a commonality.

Incoming National Security Adviser Clarita Carlos: PH and China have to talk about shared future

Incoming National Security Adviser Clarita Carlos says PH will keep insisting that there is no basis for China's nine-dash line, its claimed territorial waters that extend hundreds of miles to the south and east of its island province of Hainan

Incoming National Security Adviser Clarita Carlos: There's no reason to move forward in talks if terms aren't defined

"Atin 'yan," says incoming National Security Adviser Clarita Carlos on the West Philippine Sea

Incoming National Security Adviser Clarita Carlos: Let's tell China to include PH in decision making

Incoming National Security Adviser Clarita Carlos: Let's have a consensus in operational definition of terms

Incoming National Security Adviser Clarita Carlos: We'll keep talking because we all don't want to go to war. If China is talking about a shared future, we should be part of that. Our voice must be heard.

Incoming National Security Adviser Clarita Carlos says diplomatic protests show that PH disagrees with China's actions: We should continue filing diplomatic protests

Incoming National Security Adviser Clarita Carlos: The functional route is the best route

Incoming National Security Adviser Clarita Carlos on peace talks: Tapusin na natin 'yan. Sayang ang laway at oras natin. We have common grounds so let's proceed to the plan already.

Incoming National Security Adviser Clarita Carlos: I don't like using labels like red tagging. Labels don't define a person.

Incoming National Security Adviser Clarita Carlos: No foreign power should define our national interests for us

Incoming National Security Adviser Clarita Carlos: National security is your security as an individual. It's a slightly different perspective. That's what I can bring as a political scientist.