Duterte reported on military and economic separation from the United States

The President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte during a visit to Beijing unexpectedly announced military and economic separation from the United States. He raised the question about the US role in the region and threatened the reorientation of U.S. relations in Asia.

The statement Duterte is the latest evidence that the President of the Philippines, just five months into his six-year term, intends to change the country's relationship to its closest ally.

"America has lost us," said Duterte at a business forum on Thursday during a state visit to Beijing. "I rebuilt myself in your ideological flow and maybe I also will go to Russia to talk with Putin and tell him that the three of us against the world - China, the Philippines and Russia. This is the only way."

Duterte violated not only the ties between the United States and the Philippines, but also us relations with the Asia-Pacific region. The region was the main pillar for foreign policy ambitions of Obama.
Although the White house is trying to emphasize the positive aspects of the long-standing relationship with the island country in Southeast Asia, comments Duterte caused a quick response from Washington.

State Department spokesman John Kirby said that the United States will seek explanations for this turn of events. He described them as "another line in a fairly strong rhetoric, we believe, is in conflict with the kind of relationship that we had and continue to have with the Filipino people."

In an apparent attempt of the struggle for survival, the Minister of Commerce of the Philippines Ramon Lopez said Friday that his country will not stop trade and investment with the United States. "The key question is whether Duterte to cancel our access to our bases in the Philippines," said Robert manning, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council.

The Obama administration created the initiative on Maritime security with Southeast Asia, with a major role for the Philippines, which aims to assist countries, who resist Chinese pressure as Beijing aggressively pursues territorial claims in the South China sea.

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