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Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte Wants U.S. Special Forces Out
U.S. President Barack Obama cancelled a meeting with Duterte at an Asian leaders’ summit in Laos last week after a televised outburst by the Philippine leader.
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“We are aware of President Duterte’s statements and refer you to his office on any questions”, said Commander Gary Ross, a Pentagon spokesman.
“They have to go”, Duterte said. It’s simply a matter of principle,”Duterte said in a speech in presidential palace”.
“If they see Americans there, they will really kill them”. They would demand ransom then kill him.
Philippine presidential spokesman Ernesto Abella told local media Duterte’s latest comments reflected the government’s new direction towards a more independent foreign policy.
However, their bilateral ties have worsened since Duterte came to power following USA criticism of his controversial anti-drug campaign which has claimed close to 3,000 lives since June this year.
China’s bid to improve relations with the Philippines comes amid uncertainty, and acrimony, over the normally tight relations between the Philippines and its main ally, the United States, as Duterte shows little sign of dialling down rhetoric fiercely critical of Washington. You can not just [lecture] a president of a sovereign state. Even Obama. It would have been wrong for him to do that.
During his speech, Duterte also waved pieces of paper with printed black and white images of Muslim Filipinos killed by United States troops in the early 1900s.
Usman Ali, a freshman and public administration major didn’t think that Filipino leader was necessarily at fault.
The Armed Forces’ Western Mindanao Command is based in Zamboanga City and the task force was based in Camp Navarro in the same city.
The Filipino leader, the first to hail from the south and who claims Muslim ancestry, has been stepping up efforts to bring peace to the southern Philippines, where decades-long insurgencies with Muslim and communist rebels have claimed more than 150,000 lives.
Duterte said American soldiers are prime targets for the terrorist group Abu Sayyaf.
He also accused the US of being a “hypocrite”, and presented a photo depicting American troops near piles of dead Moro Muslims – including naked women – during the 1906 Bud Dajo massacre in which around 1,000 locals were reportedly killed in Sulu province – an Abu Sayyaf bastion.
The US embassy could not be reached for comment.
Before the alliance, the Philippines was a colony of the United States from 1898 to 1946, except for a period of Japanese occupation in World War II. “They have to go in Mindanao, there are many whites there, they have to go”, he said, adding that he was reorienting the country’s foreign policy.
When asked if he were trying to draw a cautionary tale for the American people, Earnest said, “I guess some people could draw that analogy”.
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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte arrived at the National Convention Center for scheduled bilateral meetings with ASEAN leaders on the sidelines of the 28th and 29th ASEAN Summits and other related summits on September 6 in Vientiane, Laos.