Posted on 10/20/2016 8:28:02 AM PDT by Perseverando
After the relentless barrage of verbal abuse and negative sentiment aimed at Barack Obama and the US, coupled with increasingly complimentary statements toward Beijing, it was only a matter of time before Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte put an end to the speculation if and when he would officially pivot the country's long-held diplomatic alliance away from the US and toward China. He did so today when, during a visit to China's capital, Duterte announced his "separation" from the United States, declaring he had realigned with China as the two agreed to resolve their South China Sea dispute through talks.
Duterte is currently in Beijing, where he is visiting with at least 200 business people to pave the way for what he calls a new commercial alliance as relations with longtime ally Washington deteriorate.
"In this venue, your honours, in this venue, I announce my separation from the United States," Duterte told Chinese and Philippine business people, to applause, at a forum in the Great Hall of the People attended by Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli. "Both in military, not maybe social, but economics also. America has lost."
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afterall, its a paradise down there...
And to think of all the Americans that died for the Philippines, fighting to rid them of their Japanese overlords. My dad was there, at Leyte Gulf, he lived through it. Duerte is too far removed from WW2, to have any appreciation for what America did for his country. He sides now with America’s communist enemy, China.
Seems Duterte’s solo. He didn’t even discuss it with his government.
He was capable enough to be a major of a ~1 million city handling municipal issues and got strangely popular with his anti-drugs death squads, but seems woefully inadequate for ruling a 100+ million nation in complex geopolitical environment.
If Duterte announces that PI is our worst enemy in the world, in the whole Alpha Quadrant even, then our state department will flood the USA with all 98 Million of them.
It is not likely to be a long-term honeymoon between the Philippines and China,but he is not completely wrong about how misguided US policy is these days.
It is not the same country it was 10 years ago.
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