![]() colonial history in the Philippines helps us to better understand what it is he is up to – and, just as important, what he is not up to. We believe that looking closely at Duterte’s critique of U.S. Prominently featured in this was the Bud Dajo massacre, and more generally the brutal pacification campaign the U.S. But as the full speech shows (a speech almost entirely absent from subsequent international reporting), Duterte certainly did criticize the United States’ place in Philippine history, angrily condemning the colonial abuses perpetrated by the U.S. In fact, it seems, as Duterte later claimed, that he was not referring to Obama, but to an annoying interviewer (the video seems to confirm this), and nor was he calling anyone a “whore” (in his native Bisaya ‘putangina’ is used as a general expletive, better translated as ‘screw it’ rather than a pointed slur). President Barack Obama: Diplomat Brief Weekly Newsletter N criticism of his policies with these words, addressed to U.S. In a long speech before traveling to the recent Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Laos, Duterte warned of U.S. The place to start, as with so much in the Philippines, is with the United States and notoriously this is where Duterte did begin. In this article we will try and do better. This confusion and ideological bias may reveal a lot about the forces Duterte confronts, but it tells us little, if anything about Duterte himself, and his political ambitions. ![]() And just as unexplained is what (and whose) “diplomatic efforts to ease tensions over China’s aggressive claim to the South Sea” are threatened by “the foreign policy novice.”Įnjoying this article? Click here to subscribe for full access. Unexplained, however, is how “30 years after a popular uprising ousted dictator Ferdinand Marcos” the Philippines has somehow still managed to been ruled (“for decades”) by “powerful dynastic families,” now “rattled” at the result of a popular election. ![]() The victory has rattled powerful dynastic families who have ruled the country for decades and alarmed diplomats who fear the foreign policy novice could upend diplomatic efforts to ease tensions over China’s aggressive claim to the South China Sea. What are we to make of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte? The S ydney Morning Herald had no doubt, introducing his overwhelming electoral victory this way:Ī foul-mouthed anti-establishment outsider has been elected president of the Philippines in an extraordinary political upset that will return the island-nation to authoritarian rule 30 years after a popular uprising ousted the dictator Ferdinand Marcos. ![]()
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