{"id":141323,"date":"2017-12-22T07:52:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T12:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=141323"},"modified":"2017-12-22T07:52:01","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T12:52:01","slug":"drug-war-unlikely-to-cause-arguments-between-trump-duterte-says-roque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/22\/drug-war-unlikely-to-cause-arguments-between-trump-duterte-says-roque\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug war unlikely to cause arguments between Trump, Duterte, says Roque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trusting that the meeting of President Rodrigo Duterte and US President Donald Trump will run smooth, presidential spokesman Harry Roque said that tackling the administration\u2019s war on drugs won\u2019t create tension between the two leaders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think it would be a contentious point between the two presidents,&#8221; Roque said on Tuesday in an interview with CNN&#8217;s Christiane Amanpour, citing that President Trump has even lauded Duterte for \u201cdoing the right thing in embarking on this war on drugs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Roque, \u201cThere are parallels with the policies adopted by the two presidents as far as drugs is concerned.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When asked for comments regarding Duterte\u2019s campaign against illegal drugs, Roque said, \u201cI would say that it was never his intention to conduct a war on drugs that would violate the Constitution and fundamental human rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>DAILY NEWS ROUND UP FOR 11\/ 07 \/17<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trusting that the meeting of President Rodrigo Duterte and US President Donald Trump will run smooth, presidential spokesman Harry Roque &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":114184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","mauthors-ro-angelica-equio","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}