{"id":163853,"date":"2018-05-16T05:27:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T09:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=163853"},"modified":"2018-05-16T05:27:42","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T09:27:42","slug":"chinas-xi-promises-to-protect-dutertes-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/05\/16\/chinas-xi-promises-to-protect-dutertes-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Xi promises to protect Duterte\u2019s presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Rodrigo Duterte said that Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed to protect him against any attempts to unseat him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe assurances of Xi Jinping were very encouraging&#8230;&#8217;We will not allow you to be taken out from your office, and we will not allow the Philippines to go to the dogs,'&#8221; Duterte said on Tuesday while he was aboard the BRP Davao Del Sur, docked at Casiguran Bay in Aurora, for the commemoration of the Philippine Rise.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Probably because I am a freely elected leader anyway, it could be a very justified statement,&#8221; he added<\/p>\n<p>Duterte and Xi met last April at the Boao Forum for Asia where they have affirmed strengthened ties between Philippines and China amid territorial disputes in the South China Sea.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Duterte also recalled his conversation with Xi, where he told the latter, &#8220;We are claimants to that island and we have this arbitral award. Though I am not insisting on its solution now, I\u2019d like you to know that I am going to China Sea to claim part of our territory and I will dig oil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Xi, according to Duterte, responded that it is not the right time to be discussing these matters as the relationship between the two countries has just been restored.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s a new era for us, a new day and if I may beg you not to bring this up forcefully because there will be a time that we will be discussing it,\u201d Duterte quoted Xi.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>DAILY NEWS ROUND UP FOR 05\/ 16 \/18<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Rodrigo Duterte said that Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed to protect him against any attempts to unseat him. \u201cThe &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-163853","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\/163853","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=163853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163853\/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=163853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}