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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte
Who’s Had the Worst Year? How Asian Leaders Fared in 2016
published Dec 28th 2016, 5:07 pm, by David Tweed (Bloomberg) —In a year dominated by Brexit and Donald Trump’s surprise U.S. election win, Asia felt like a relatively stable part of the world. A closer look shows that the region endured its own seismic events in 2016, from a Philippine
The U.S. Can Still Be Friends With the Philippines: Editorial
published Oct 23rd 2016, 5:00 pm, by The Editors (Bloomberg View) — For a moment last week, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte seemed to have orchestrated one of the most dramatic geopolitical shifts in Asia since the end of the Cold War — abandoning the U.S., his country’s longtime ally, for