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Duterte’s Flip-Flop into Bed with China Is a Disaster for the United States

Posted October 21st, 2016 at 2:26 pm (UTC-4)
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The Philippines has seen a vertigo-inducing change in its foreign-policy orientation since Rodrigo Duterte became president this summer. This crude populist is now transforming the Philippines’ relationship with the United States in a fundamental and worrying manner.