As President Obama gives his valedictory speech to the United Nations General Assembly and has recently returned from a farewell tour of East Asia, it sure seems like other countries were dissing him. Rodrigo Duterte, the president of the Philippines–a small, poor country that has a territorial dispute with China in the South China Sea and depends on the U.S. military to defend it–launched a personal profane diatribe against Obama not usually used in diplo-speak. Obama’s response was to cancel a formal meeting with Duterte, but then the next day met with him informally anyway. The Chinese insultingly refused to …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
