“Son of a bitch” (or son of a whore, depending on the translation) seems to be a favourite of Duterte.
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“President Duterte explained that the press reports that President Obama would “lecture” him on extrajudicial killings led to his strong comments, which in turn elicited concern”, the Philippines government said in a statement.
Obama later canceled a bilateral meeting he was scheduled to have with Duterte in Vientiane.
Now, Duterte is changing his tune and expressed regret about his comments, a rare act for the leader who has been dubbed “the Punisher”, and is known for using profanity, the Daily Mail reported.
However, diplomats say strains with longtime ally the Philippines could compound Washington’s difficulties in forging a united front with Southeast Asian partners on the geostrategic jostle with Beijing over the South China Sea.
US funding to Laos for ordinance clearance has been on the rise since 2010, when Congress agreed to offer $5 million in assistance.
Obama arrived in Vientiane on Monday night and will attend Thursday’s summit.
At the February meeting, Obama called for “tangible steps” to lower tensions over ongoing territorial disputes in the South China Sea and said regional leaders had affirmed that disagreements should be resolved peacefully, through legal means. I am no American puppet. “So. people who live in glass houses should not” throw stones.
Magdalo Rep. Gary Alejano said global cooperation was important as all countries were “intertwined economically, politically, diplomatically”.
Park says a nuclear test and continued missile launches are fundamentally threatening the security of the Korean Peninsula.
And yet, Donald Trump showed a similar lack of tact last week, when he lied to the world about not discussing payment for a border wall with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, a statement that was immediately rebutted by representatives of the Mexican government. “He regrets that his remarks to the press have caused much controversy”, a DFA statement said on Tuesday.
However, Duterte later said in a statement that both he and Obama mutually agreed to postpone the meeting, according to the Philippines TV station ANC-CBN.
Duterte was referring to the US’s history as a colonial power in the Philippines, and specifically to one infamous massacre in the southern Philippines – the 1906 Battle of Bud Dajo – in which hundreds of Filipinos, including women and children, were killed.
“I do not respond to anybody but to the people of the Republic of the Philippines”.
“You must be respectful”, Duterte said of Obama. “You don’t just slap the face of the most powerful country in the world and expect to get away with it”, Trillanes said. “Son of a whore, I will curse you in that forum”, Duterte told reporters on Monday when asked about his message for Obama. And U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is also part of the “son of a bitch” club, after Ban said the drug killings were “illegal and a breach of fundamental rights and freedoms”. Duterte said in his remarks, adding that the Philippines had not received an apology from the United States for misdeeds committed during its colonization of the Philippines.
He pointed to the killing of Muslim Moros more than a century ago during a US pacification campaign in the southern Philippines, blaming the wounds of the past as “the reason why (the south) continues to boil” with separatist insurgencies.
Duterte has had a troubled relation with the United States, criticizing its inability to stop violence in the Middle East and Africa, and citing USA police shootings of black Americans.
US officials have also expressed deep concern over the possibility of China developing Scarborough into an island or starting to erect concrete structures there, which could reinforce Beijing’s control over a swath of the South China Sea.
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Heydarian noted that Japan has close ties with the Philippines, which have only grown amid China’s bellicose moves in the South China and East China seas. Leaders from left, Myanmar’s State Counsellor and Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi, Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, Vietnam’s President Tran Dai Quang, Laos Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith, Philippine’s President Rodrigo Duterte, Brunei Foreign Minister and Prime Minister Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo and Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak.
