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Title:
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Philippine leader tells Obama 'go to hell', says can buy arms from Russia, China
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Author:
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Reuters
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Source:
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Reuters
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Date:
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October 5, 2016
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Description:
- Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday told U.S. President Barack Obama to "go to hell" and said the United States had refused to sell some weapons to his country but he did not care because Russia and China were willing suppliers.
Political Security
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Title:
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How the US got outplayed in the Asia-Pacific
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Author:
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Mark Valencia
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Source:
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South China Morning Post
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Date:
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October 5, 2016
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Description:
- In the waning days of the Obama administration, the worm may be turning regarding the US military’s welcome in Asia. Indeed, the Obama foreign policy brain trust may be underestimating China’s diplomatic leverage and skill, and overestimating its own. The current trends are not auspicious for the US. Indeed, we may be seeing a slow but sure seismic shift in US political standing in the region.
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Title:
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Off-track foreign policy
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Author:
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Philippine Daily Inquirer Editorial
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Source:
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Philippine Daily Inquirer
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Date:
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October 5, 2016
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Description:
- RECENT DEVELOPMENTS on the foreign-relations front are becoming unsettling. Earlier, President Duterte insulted US President Barack Obama, the European Union and the United Nations for commenting on the rising number of extrajudicial killings here. He followed these up with announcements that he would seek to expand ties with China and Russia. Then last week, he said the coming US-PH war games would be the last.
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Title:
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US says EDCA is binding, reminds PH of aid after Yolanda
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Author:
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Carmela Fonbuena
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Source:
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Rappler
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Date:
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October 5, 2016
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Description:
- MANILA, Philippines – US Press Secretary Josh Earnest said the military-to-military deal between the Philippines and the US that President Rodrigo Duterte is putting under review is a "binding" agreement that may only be withdrawn through a formal process.
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Title:
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Duterte names journalist as ambassador to China
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Author:
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Paterno Esmaquel II
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Source:
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Rappler
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Date:
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October 5, 2016
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Description:
- MANILA, Philippines (UPDATED) – President Rodrigo Duterte has named Jose Santiago "Chito" Santa Romana, a journalist who worked in Beijing for decades, as the Philippines' new ambassador to China.
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Title:
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Pentagon downplays Philippines threat to scrap treaty
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Author:
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AFP
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Source:
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Bangkok Post
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Date:
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October 4, 2016
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Description:
- WASHINGTON - The Pentagon on Monday downplayed comments from Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, after he threatened to cancel a defence accord with the United States.
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Title:
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‘No need to review EDCA’
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Author:
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Pia Lee-Brago
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Source:
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The Philippine Star
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Date:
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October 4, 2016
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Description:
- MANILA, Philippines - Despite President Duterte’s declaration that he would seek a review of the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement with the United States, the Philippines’ top diplomat said there is no need to do so, as the Supreme Court had upheld the legality of EDCA.
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Title:
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Tracking China’s Compliance with the South China Sea Arbitral Award
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Author:
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Julian Ku, Chris Mirasola
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Source:
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Lawfare
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Date:
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October 3, 2016
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Description:
- Since the arbitral tribunal formed pursuant to the UN Convention for the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) handed China a stunning legal defeat in July, China has loudly proclaimed its intention to ignore the arbitral award. For most analysts of the region, it has been a working assumption that China has not and will not comply with any parts of the award. But China’s statements that it will ignore the award do not necessarily mean that it is currently in complete non-compliance or that it will never come into compliance in the future. China’s actions, as opposed to terse public statements, must be assessed as a measure of its compliance.
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Title:
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Duterte eyes review of EDCA
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Author:
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Alexis Romero
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Source:
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The Philippine Star
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Date:
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October 3, 2016
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Description:
- MANILA, Philippines – President Duterte continued his anti-US rhetoric yesterday as he vowed to review the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA), which grants American troops access to Philippine military bases.
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Title:
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Duterte’s economic opening to China and Russia need not threaten our US ties
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Author:
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Wilson Lee Flores
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Source:
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The Philippine Star
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Date:
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October 3, 2016
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Description:
- XIAN CITY, China — Last Sept. 26, when President Rody Duterte announced his bold path to pursue a truly independent foreign policy of opening alliances — especially more economic ties with the world’s second largest economy, China, and the world’s energy superpower, Russia — that day also marked the start of a two-day international conference on the $4 trillion trans-continental economic development plan of 60 countries called the “One Belt, One Road” or “Belt and Road Initiative” (BRI) in Xian City, Shaanxi province, northwest China. Xian is the starting point of the famous ancient “Silk Road” linking Asia to the Middle East and Europe via trade.
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Title:
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IS PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT DUTERTE PLAYING THE UNITED STATES AND CHINA?
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Author:
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Raissa Robles
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Source:
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South China Morning Post
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Date:
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October 2, 2016
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Description:
- This Tuesday, 1,400 US marines and navy servicement will train with 500 Filipino soldiers on Philippine soil, for the final time if President Rodrigo Duterte is to be taken at his word.
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Title:
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Philippines' Duterte says China, Russia supportive when he complained of U.S
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Author:
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Additional reporting by Roberta Rampton; Writing by Martin Petty; Editing by Mike Collett-White and Lisa Von Ahn
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Source:
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Reuters
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Date:
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October 2, 2016
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Description:
- Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte said on Sunday he had received support from Russia and China when he complained to them about the United States, in another broadside that could test his increasingly fragile alliance with Washington.
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Title:
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How to pull Du30 from the Rubicon?
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Author:
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Federico D. Pascual, Jr.
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Source:
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The Philippine Star
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Date:
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October 2, 2016
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Description:
- NEW YORK – When President Rodrigo Duterte stands at “the Rubicon” late this month, will he decide to take the nation with him and cross the river – then pivot to the left into the waiting arms of the Chinese?
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Title:
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How exactly is DU30 standing up to Washington?
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Author:
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Francisco Tatad
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Source:
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The Manila Times
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Date:
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September 30, 2016
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Description:
- Given the current state of confusion and chaos, President Rodrigo Duterte could be doing himself and everybody else a favor if he cleared up some basic points concerning his war on drugs and his announced policy shift toward Beijing and Moscow, away from Washington. This is the least Filipinos deserve.
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Title:
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Japan-Philippines Defense Relations Under Duterte: Full Steam Ahead?
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Author:
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Prashanth Parameswaran
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Source:
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The Diplomat
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Date:
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September 30, 2016
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Description:
- On September 21, the Philippines and Japan convened the fourth iteration of their vice ministerial defense dialogue. The talks saw both countries discuss proposals to deepen their defense relationship despite lingering uncertainty about the future direction of Philippine foreign policy under its new president, Rodrigo Duterte.
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Title:
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Pentagon chief calls U.S. alliance with Philippines 'ironclad'
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Author:
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Yeganeh Torbati
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Source:
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Reuters
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Date:
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September 29, 2016
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Description:
- The United States has an "ironclad" alliance with the Philippines, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Thursday, countering statements by the southeast Asian nation's president that have thrown bilateral relations into deepening uncertainty.
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Title:
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PH-China ties improving ‘beautifully’ under Duterte—Chinese envoy
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Author:
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Agence France-Presse
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Source:
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Philippine Daily Inquirer
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Date:
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September 28, 2016
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Description:
- Relations between China and the Philippines are improving “beautifully” under President Rodrigo Duterte, Beijing’s envoy has said as Duterte warms to China and Russia following US criticism of his bloody war on crime.
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Title:
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US concerned over Philippines' sea row agenda, says Yasay
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Author:
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Camille Diola
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Source:
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The Philippine Star
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Date:
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September 27, 2016
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Description:
- MANILA, Philippines — United States officials were concerned over the Philippines' next steps on the dispute over the South China Sea, but the Philippines is not keen on discussions with other parties besides China, Foreign Affairs Secretary Perfecto Yasay said on Tuesday.
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Title:
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If 92% of Filipinos ‘like’ the US, who will follow DU30?
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Author:
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Francisco Tatad
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Source:
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The Manila Times
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Date:
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September 26, 2016
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Description:
- The American geopolitical analyst Robert D. Kaplan calls it Asia’s “cauldron.” Nations sitting within and around this cauldron have a duty to keep it from boiling. Cooperation, not belligerence or confrontation, should inform their relations with each other, given their competing national interests and territorial claims. Allies of the United States, China’s neighbors from the very beginning, know that their alliance rests on the US as the dominant Pacific and world military power; they should not undermine it, as the late Bavarian statesman Franz Josef Strauss (1915-88) used to say; neither should they seek to maintain it by taking an unduly aggressive stance against China as the secondary power. This is the specific case of the Philippines.
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Title:
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How to Spark a War in Asia
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Author:
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Ted Galen Carpenter
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Source:
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The National Interest
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Date:
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September 24, 2016
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Description:
- A major challenge for a great power is preventing allies and client states from creating unwanted security crises. No matter how close or friendly an ally might be, it has its own policy agenda, and that agenda may differ from that of its great power protector. Failure to rein in a client can be calamitous. Serbia’s pursuit of a stridently nationalist parochial agenda against Austria-Hungary in the years before World War I, for example, was a major factor in eventually entangling its patron, Russia, in the conflict.