Philippine president declares separation from the US

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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s surprise announcement of a military and economic “separation” from the US during a visit to Beijing Thursday left the Obama administration scrambling, as it raised questions about the US role in the region and threatened a realignment of US relationships in Asia.Duterte’s declaration is the latest indication that the Philippines’ president, just five months into his six-year term, intends to reshape his country’s ties to its closest ally by doubling down on his pivot away from the US and toward China.
“America has lost now,” Duterte said at a business forum Thursday during a four-day state visit to Beijing. “I’ve realigned myself in your ideological flow and maybe I will also go to Russia to talk to Putin and tell him that there are three of us against the world — China, Philippines and Russia. It’s the only way.”Duterte’s comments risk disrupting not just US-Philippines ties, but US ties to the larger Asia-Pacific, a region that Obama has made a central pillar of his foreign policy ambitions as he looks to anchor the US in the Pacific century.Though the White House is trying to emphasize the positive aspects of the longstanding relationship with the Southeast Asia island country, Duterte’s comments provoked a swift response from Washington.
State Department spokesman John Kirby said the US would seek an explanation, which the US hadn’t known were coming.He described them as “yet another string in some pretty strong rhetoric that we think we believe is at odds with the kind of relationship that we have had and continue to have the Filipino people.”

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