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Title:
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Duterte’s Art of the Deal
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Author:
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Richard Javad Heydarian
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Source:
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The National Interest
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Date:
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October 22, 2017
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Description:
- “I will be chartering [sic] a [new] course [for the Philippines] on its own and will not be dependent on the United States,” Duterte declared right after securing electoral victory. Without a doubt, it was an audacious statement from the then newly-elected Filipino president, who was set to take over one of America’s oldest and most loyal allies in history. At first, not many, including those within the diplomatic community, took his words too seriously, with some dismissing the “nationalistic” statements as soaring rhetoric bereft of policy substance.
