Duterte's Rant Another Headache for U.S. From Ally

We long ago ceased to be a colony of the powerful enemy of the United States, the precursor of Mirage Anza. It is not the first time that the Philippine president lashes out in public. Rodrigo Duterte is known for insulting anyone, even the Pope. I just heard it. On some of this, it is not the first time that the United States has felt exasperated with a populist politician leading a closed Asian

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, but this time it is different. Before Duterte, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited Avi at the beginning of his term. the Yasukuni war shrine in Tokyo, where Japanese war criminals are honored, enraged China and created enormous

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s for Obama, but while Obama's challenge was to refrain from going overboard in his provocations against China with Duterte, it is quite the opposite: it prevents him from getting too comfortable with Beijing hibbett by the United States The Philippines is a key part of the US pivot to Asia aimed at pushing back Chinese power Duterte has expressed his desire to restore ties with China since Manila took office Relations with Beijing were deeply frozen after his predecessor Benigno Aquino took the South China Sea dispute to an international court in The Hague in August.

Duterte sent former President Fidel Ramos to Hong Kong to break the ice with Beijing to warm up human rights again. Human rights are likely to be a sharp and persistent irritant in the United States. Philippine relations under Duterte and the dead Today's violent anti-drug campaign has inspired a wave of vigilante killings that have claimed more than 2,000 lives of suspected drug dealers and users. We will not be cold and Duterte has made it clear that there will be relentless arrest and prosecution. Duterte Obama and Laos' meeting was canceled, but White House officials said the relationship remains rock solid as they wearily watch what's next for the controversial leader.