Reports of death of US-Philippine alliance may be exaggerated

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Reports of death of US-Philippine alliance may be exaggerated
Peter Lee
By Peter Lee October 22, 2016 8:59 PM (UTC+8)

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There has been considerable wailing and gnashing of teeth in the pivoteer quadrant in the aftermath of Duterte’s state visit to Beijing.

Understandably.

When the president of the Philippines, a keystone of the anti-China kinda-containment US alliance, makes statements in China’s Great Hall of the People like this…
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“In this venue, your honors, in this venue, I announce my separation from the United States…Both in military, not maybe social, but economics also. America has lost.”

…it’s not a good day for Uncle Sam.

http://www.atimes.com/reports-death-us-philippine-alliance-may-exaggerated/

[Maj. Bill Martin]

"Perhaps what we are seeing is a swing of the pendulum, away from the United States and toward China, which will at some future date swing back in the opposite direction."

I'm not so certain that's true.