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Based
on an article posted by BBC with the same title on October 21, 2016
Last Thursday, the president of the Philippines,
Rodrigo Duterte, made a controversial statement during a meeting to promote
trade and business deals with China. He said that the Philippines would get rid
of the US. He even stated that he would join China’s ideology and plan to go to
Russia for discussing with President Vladimir about making cooperation between
the three countries.
Knowing that statement, the US is left in confusion
as the Philippines and the US have had close and good relations so far.
Conversely, the Philippines and China had series of problems due to a
territorial issue in the South China Sea. As a result, Daniel Russel as the US wants
to ask President Duterte about the clarity of his statement. Before this
controversial statement, President Duterte also had said that he would end the
cooperation between the US and the Philippines in military after getting
criticism from the US about his severe attempts against drugs.
The issue between the US and the Philippines reminds
me of a quotation from Winston Churchill saying “The enemy of my enemy is my
friend”, which one of my lecturers told me. Maybe that quotation suits the
situation between two countries. I suppose that after getting criticism from
the US, the president of the Philippines has been growing the dispute with the
US. Regardless the problem, I believe that everyone has freedom of speech as
well as freedom of choice, and it means that everyone is allowed to criticize
or suggest, but everyone also has rights to receive or refuse them. In
conclusion, the Philippines’ president does not need to make it so serious that
he wants to get rid of the good relations with the US.
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