Title:

 Duterte in China: Philippine leader turns conciliator-in-chief?

Author:

Carrie Gracie

Source:

BBC

Date:

 October 18, 2016

Description:

What has happened to the swashbuckling presidential candidate who six months ago said he would personally retake the Spratly Islands from China, riding out to sea on a jet ski to plant the Philippine flag on a disputed shoal? And what has happened to the foulmouthed commander-in-chief of a key US ally who only last month casually called his American counterpart a "son of a whore"?