{"id":127979,"date":"2017-11-02T02:46:07","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T06:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=127979"},"modified":"2017-11-02T02:46:07","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T06:46:07","slug":"white-house-duterte-trump-have-warm-rapport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/11\/02\/white-house-duterte-trump-have-warm-rapport\/","title":{"rendered":"White House: Duterte, Trump have \u2018warm rapport\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: During their talk, Trump invited Duterte to visit the White House next year and Duterte asked the U.S. president-elect to attend an East Asian summit to be hosted by the Philippines next year. (Photo by ACE MORANDANTE\/Presidential Photographers Division)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With his nearing visit to the Philippines, a White House senior administration official bared that President Donald Trump has formed a good relationship with President Rodrigo Duterte despite the latter\u2019s verbal attacks on the United States (US).<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Duterte, he\u2019s spoken with, they\u2019ve had exchanges of letter. I think there\u2019s a warm rapport there,\u201d the official said on Tuesday during a briefing on Trump\u2019s trip to Asia.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd so the President will have frank and friendly discussions in his first meeting with Mr. Duterte,\u201d the official added.<\/p>\n

The official, who was not named in the briefing transcript by the US Embassy in Manila, further said that Trump was “very much looking forward to his first in-person meeting with Duterte,” and apart from letters, they have also exchanged phone calls.<\/p>\n

Despite the two countries having long relations, Duterte has previously criticized the US in some of his speeches and statements. It can be recalled that he announced his “separation” from the US during his visit to China last year. The Philippine President was also angered when the Obama administration condemned the killings in Duterte\u2019s war on drugs.<\/p>\n

However, Trump\u00a0has not openly criticized Duterte back. In fact,\u00a0the American President phoned Duterte praising him for his “unbelievable job on the drug problem” in April, with the White House calling it a “very friendly conversation.”<\/p>\n

Former Presidential Spokesman Ernesto Abella said in a previous statement, “The ambit of the conversation between the two leaders includes the expression of commitment of US President Trump to the PH-US alliance and his interest in developing a warm, working relationship with President Duterte.”<\/p>\n

\u201cThe amount of cooperation that\u2019s taking place below the leader level and made possible by our longstanding relationship and alliance with the Philippines is still very robust. And that expands to areas like counterterror, all of the close people-to-people ties between the country, and human rights as well,\u201d the official added.<\/p>\n

On the subject of human rights, Phelim Kine, deputy Asia director of Human Rights Watch, slammed Trump for this recent development revealed by the White House official.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrump\u2019s explicit eagerness to meet with the architect of a killing campaign that has resulted in the deaths of more than 12,000 men, women, and children over the past 16 months is more than a grievous insult to injury for family members of victims,\u201d Kine told The Guardian.<\/p>\n

Trump will be touring Asia from November 3-14, with his scheduled arrival in the Philippines on the 12th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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