Australian Foreign Affairs Columnist

Greg Sheridan

1 article 2004

Greg Sheridan is the foreign editor of The Australian and one of Australia's most influential commentators on international affairs and Asian geopolitics. He contributed to The Weekly Standard with analysis of political developments in the Philippines.

Melodrama in Manila

May 10, 2004 · Magazine

A FEW YEARS AGO I went to interview Joseph Estrada in one of his lush Manila mansions. A roly-poly former action movie star gone to seed--with his Errol Flynn moustache and his Elvis bouffant hair--he was, amazingly enough, at that time, vice president of the Philippines.