The Newsmakers

Trump’s Philippines Pursuit


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Former US president Barack Obama took a hard line against the drug war in the Philippines, calling it a human rights disaster. And President Rodrigo Duterte responded with swear words. Since then, the Philippines has been pivoting towards China and now it's Trump who's offering to make to peace. At this week's ASEAN summit, he crooned about the great relationship between the two countries with no mention of the nearly four thousand Filipinos who've died from what many call extrajudicial killings. So, is this the price the US is willing to pay for influence in Southeast Asia?
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