Posted on 10/21/2016 11:41:47 AM PDT by C19fan
Hillary Clinton has swept her debate series with Donald Trump, and voters seem to like Trump less the harder they look at him. But as Clinton surely understands, even as she approaches the White House, the global scene is getting darker.
This morning, we saw a glimpse of that world, as one of America’s longest-standing allies in Asia turned its back on the United States and embraced China:
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He (Duterte) certainly believes that China will support him against the critics at home and abroad who will wring their hands over his shift. He presumably has had some assurances from his Chinese hosts that if he commits his cause to them, they will back him to the hilt.
Duterte is a lot smarter than he looks although knowing how fickle Obama is does not require a high IQ. /src on/But hey Obama is pushing the frontiers of LGBT rights across the globe./src off/
Are you siding with Communist China?
I think that the Philippines is going for some kind of cuckold record:
they were colonized by Spain, then by the USA, then by Japan, then by the USA again and now it seems they are eagerly seeking out to be colonized by China.
I believe that would be a world record..?
Don’t go and think I don’t have think Duarte has some legitimate beefs, however.
“Hillary Clinton has swept her debate series with Donald Trump...”
Lost me right there.
A lot Philipinos here in USA.
I'm sure that China will be glad to support Duterte. All it will cost him are the Spratly Islands and the Scarborough Shoal.
I don’t know how he expects to get his genies back into their bottle.
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