American investors in the Philippines yesterday warned that President Duterte’s brutal drugs war and foul-mouthed tirades, including branding U.S. leader Barack Obama a “son of a bitch”, could hit foreign investment.
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Duterte said that the media’s role was important in recording the history of the country.
The acid-tongued Mr. Duterte also blamed the diplomatic bust-up on the foreign media’s erroneous translation of “putang ina” into English as “son of a whore”.
Republicans in Congress are planning a light legislative agenda, a strategy some say is partly aimed at bogging down Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton if she becomes president after the November 8 election.
On Friday during an overnight visit to Indonesia, Duterte announced China had pledged to help build drug rehabilitation centres to treat Filipino crystal meth users.
Duterte, on his first foreign bilateral trip since winning power in May elections, said the two sides had committed to take “all necessary steps” to ensure maritime security.
The acid-tongued Duterte yesterday insisted the Philippine expression “putang ina” should not be taken at face value, since it was “an ordinary expression (used) by everyone”.
While in command, the top USA general in Europe said President Obama looked at North Atlantic Treaty Organisation as a warmonger “worry” and “threat” rather than an alliance trying to keep the peace, retired Air Force Gen. Philip Breedlove, who retired in May, wrote a 2014 series of emails to a think tank official in Washington. “It’s not son of a whore”, he explained.
Mr Paynor said: “He has to experience it, if you don’t experience it, you don’t know how it’s done, you’ll be grappling”.
The Philippine leader has become famous for his profane outbursts, and has hurled expletives at Pope Francis and the USA ambassador Philip Goldberg.
Mr. Duterte also criticized the media for “spinning stories” about his remarks on Mr. Obama. “I don’t give a shit”.
Early in his presidency, he briefly boycotted media after his remarks that most murdered journalists were corrupt drew criticism, including a call from an global group, which the press ignored, not to cover him in protest.
Being the chairman of the next ASEAN summit, Duterte also said that holding the event in Davao City was an option but it would depend on the security situation given that the country had been put under a state of emergency on account of lawlessness.
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Duterte on Friday said he thought U.N. Secretary-General Ban a fool for bringing up the issue of human rights violations weeks before the summit in Laos.
