Enter the Dragon: CHINA-DUTERTE REGIME? NOT QUITE YET

by Vida Gracias There is a growing perception that President Rodrigo Duterte is already distancing his administration from the United States and increasingly cozying up to China. Is it now apt to assume that a China-Duterte rather than a US-Duterte regime is shaping up? Consider the following: Duterte has indefinitely set aside the Permanent Court […]