{"id":100567,"date":"2017-05-01T03:32:12","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T07:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=100567"},"modified":"2025-01-20T09:57:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T14:57:50","slug":"philippines-says-trump-called-duterte-to-affirm-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/05\/01\/philippines-says-trump-called-duterte-to-affirm-alliance\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippines says Trump called Duterte to affirm alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Presidential spokesman Ernie Abella said Trump mentioned he was looking forward to visiting the Philippines in November to attend an East Asia summit that Duterte will host with several world leaders and that Trump invited Duterte to visit the White House. (Photo:Presidential Communications (Government of the Philippines)\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA \u2013 U.S. President Donald Trump has called\u00a0Philippine\u00a0leader Rodrigo Duterte and expressed Washington’s commitment to their treaty alliance and his interest in developing \u201ca warm, working relationship,\u201d a\u00a0Filipino\u00a0official said Sunday.<\/p>\n

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Presidential spokesman Ernie Abella said Trump mentioned he was looking forward to visiting the\u00a0Philippines\u00a0in November to attend an East Asia summit that Duterte will host with several world leaders and that Trump invited Duterte to visit the White House.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe discussion that transpired between the presidents was warm, with President Trump expressing his understanding and appreciation of the challenges facing the\u00a0Philippine\u00a0president, especially on the matter of dangerous drugs,\u201d Abella said in a statement.<\/p>\n

A White House statement described late Saturday’s call as \u201cvery friendly\u201d and said the U.S.-Philippine\u00a0alliance \u201cis now heading in a very positive direction.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump’s chief of staff, Reince Priebus, said the friendlier ties are needed even with concerns about Duterte’s human rights record, which includes extrajudicial killings of suspected drug dealers and users as part of the government’s drug war. Priebus cited the military threat of North Korea.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe purpose of this call is all about North Korea,\u201d Priebus told ABC’s \u201cThis Week\u201d on Sunday. \u201cIt doesn’t mean that human rights don’t matter.\u201d<\/p>\n

Abella’s remarks reflect the friendlier attitude Duterte has taken with Trump versus the antagonistic stance he had toward President Barack Obama, who he once asked to \u201cgo to hell\u201d for criticizing the\u00a0Philippine\u00a0leader’s bloody anti-drug crackdown. During Obama’s final months in office, the\u00a0Philippine\u00a0president moved to build closer economic ties with China and Russia while repeatedly threatening to end his nation’s longstanding military alliance with the U.S.<\/p>\n

Duterte’s apparent dislike for Obama began when the U.S. State Department expressed concern over his drug war \u2013 which has left thousands of suspects dead \u2013 and asked\u00a0Philippine\u00a0government officials to take steps to stop extrajudicial killings.<\/p>\n

At one point Duterte suggested he may even move to abrogate a 2014 defence agreement that allows U.S. military access to fivePhilippine\u00a0military camps.<\/p>\n

He has walked back most of those threats but has proceeded with his efforts to align closer with China.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, three Chinese navy ships, including a guided-missile destroyer and a guided-missile frigate, were welcomed in Davao city, Duterte’s southern hometown, by officials, including presidential daughter and city Mayor Sarah Duterte, military officials said.<\/p>\n

Asked if the rare Chinese naval visits were a sign that Duterte was backing away from Washington, Department of National Defence spokesman Arsenio Andolong said: \u201cWe are not veering away from the U.S. but rather we are expanding our relations with our fellow nations in the global community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Abella said without elaborating that concern over North Korea came up in Trump’s talk with Duterte.<\/p>\n

Priebus indicated that the issue was Trump’s primary concern, citing a North Korean threat \u201cso serious\u201d that it will require co-operation from Asian countries in the region. \u201cSo if something does happen in North Korea, …<\/p>\n

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we have everyone in line backing up a plan of action that may need to be put together with our partners in the area,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Duterte suggested in a news conference Saturday that the Trump administration should back away from an intensifying standoff with North Korea, not in surrender, but to avoid risking a nuclear holocaust that could smother Asia.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would be good for America to just restrain a little bit and if I were President Trump, I’ll just back out, not really in surrender and retreat, but just to let the guy realize that, ‘Ah, please do not do it,\u201d’ Duterte said.<\/p>\n

Washington, he said, should not play into provocations of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt behooves upon America, who wields the biggest stick, just to really be prudent and patient. We know that we are playing with somebody who relishes letting go of his missiles and everything,\u201d Duterte said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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