{"id":154041,"date":"2018-02-23T23:03:52","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T04:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=154041"},"modified":"2018-02-23T23:03:52","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T04:03:52","slug":"palace-summons-us-envoy-over-intel-report-on-prrd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/02\/23\/palace-summons-us-envoy-over-intel-report-on-prrd\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace summons US envoy over intel report on PRRD"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_151510\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-151510\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/JAL01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-151510\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/JAL01.jpg\" alt=\"FILE: Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque (PCOO photo)\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/JAL01.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/JAL01-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-151510\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque (PCOO photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 Malacanang on Friday said Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea had summoned United States Ambassador to the Philippines Sung Kim to discuss the latest US Intelligence Community\u2019s Worldwide Threat Assessment.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said the meeting between Medialdea and Kim took place on February 22, a day after the US Intelligence Community\u2019s assessment tagging President Rodrigo Duterte as among the \u201cregional threats\u201d came out through the media.<\/p>\n<p>Roque, in a statement, said Medialdea has instructed the Department of Foreign Affairs, through the Philippine embassy in Washington D.C., to coordinate and engage with the US agencies involved in the writing of the assessment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cES Medialdea further directed our embassy officials and staff in the US to provide the latter accurate information on the realities happening on the ground in the Philippines, including the actions taken by the President and his administration to promote socioeconomic development for the country and provide a safe and secure environment for all Filipinos, respecting at all times the rule of law,\u201d Roque said.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from Duterte, Cambodia\u2019s Prime Minister Hun Sen and the ruling Thai officials have been identified by the US Intelligence Community as among threats to democracy and human rights in the Southeast Asian region.<\/p>\n<p>Last Wednesday, Roque slammed the World Threat Assessment report, saying Duterte \u201cis no autocrat or has autocratic tendencies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe adheres to the rule of law and remains loyal to the Constitution. An autocracy is not prevalent, as they would like everyone to believe,\u201d Roque said in a press statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur media are still able to broadcast and print what they want \u2013 fake news included. Our judiciary and the courts are functioning as usual. Our legislature remains independent and basic services are still being delivered,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Roque added that there is no revolutionary government or nationwide martial law \u201cwhich US intelligence officials are saying that the President might declare or impose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 Malacanang on Friday said Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea had summoned United States Ambassador to the Philippines Sung Kim to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":151510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[15359,47165,978,2444,12580],"class_list":["post-154041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-harry-roque","tag-intel-report","tag-malacanang","tag-rodrigo-duterte","tag-sung-kim","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154041","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=154041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}