Hey Rodrigo. Look up “Pyrrhic.” And anyhow weren’t you just hooting about creating a U.N. alternative with China? Ain’t that easier with friends?
Can everybody say “Wag The Dog”? He’s just desperately trying to save face after making an epic fool of himself (and the Philippines) for brazenly threatening to leave the U.N. (when the Philippines is one of the most dependent countries in the world on foreign aid, especially from the U.N.) and then immediately backtracking so fast it left skid marks.
http://globalnation.inquirer.net/143179/duterte-on-un-pullout-cant-you-take-a-joke