Duterte (Phillipines) having problems
His mouth seems to be finally getting him in trouble.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/11/02/philippines-duterte-discovered-this-week-that-his-actions-have-consequences/?wpisrc=nl_most-draw7&wpmm=1
It's only Wednesday, but President Rodrigo Duterte must be ready for the weekend.
Less than two weeks after his trip to China and his call for a “separation” from the United States, the president of the Philippines is for the first time feeling the effects of what seems to be — to some at least — a concerted effort to alienate his allies.
The first hit: the defection of former president Fidel Ramos. Duterte's camp confirmed Wednesday that Ramos, Duterte's China envoy, has resigned just four months into the president's term.
The news came after Ramos, who helped Duterte get elected, put out his second scathing critique of the president's short tenure. The piece, published Sunday, accused Duterte of “unwittingly shooting himself in the mouth” and taking "101.5 million Filipinos” down with him by insulting allies.
“He may claim that to be more ‘insulting than friendly’ to our long-established allies is part of his God-given ‘destiny.’ But, this is obviously wrong, and full of S …. T!!!,” Ramos wrote.
In an earlier letter, Ramos called Duterte's first 100 days as president a “huge disappointment and letdown.” Ramos faulted Duterte for a bloody campaign against suspected drug users and dealers that has claimed thousands of lives, and he criticized his anti-U.S., anti-U.N. rhetoric.
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