Trump praises Duterte’s ‘great job’ in Philippines drug war

“The Philippines, on the other hand, will open its doors to farm machinery, meat, and other equipment needed to improve agriculture and fisheries in the country”, said Mr. Piñol.

“All his rockets are crashing”, Trump added.

Duterte responded that Kim is “playing with his bombs, his toys” and offered that “his mind is not working well and he just might go insane one moment”. “We have two submarines, the best in the world, we have two nuclear submarines – not that we want to use them at all”, Trump told Duterte, after earlier stating that an all-out conflict was a strong possibility. “The US? We need weapons”, he said.

Kurlantzick suggested that while Duterte is likely to visit Washington he may not want to appear as though he is embracing the USA, given how much he has courted China and Russian Federation.

“I’ve realigned myself in your ideological flow and maybe I will also go to Russian Federation to talk to Putin and tell him there are three of us against the world: China, Philippines and Russian Federation”. After that ruling, President Duterte met with his Chinese counterpart and signaled the world as if he is moving out of the US camp in favor of closer ties with China.

“Many countries have the problem”, Trump told Duterte regarding illegal drug-dealing.

“I’m not denying the President’s speech”, he said, “but said the context of the talk is “how we start the dialogue” and internal and external peace, national security and stability is part of the core belief of the program of President Duterte, [and] this is his campaign promise and the goal of the President”. “I want my country to be treated with dignity”, he added.

China has yet to respond to Duterte revealing contents of the meeting.

President Trump told Rodrigo Duterte that he was doing an “unbelievable job on the drug problem”.

‘The intent of these security forces, the Armed Forces of the Philippines, is to conclude this rapidly so that we can restore normalcy in that area, ‘ military spokesman Edgar Arevalo said in an interview with news channel ANC.

“I want to deal with China and Russian Federation”.

Trump recently extended a White House invitation to Duterte during a “very friendly conversation”, triggering an avalanche of criticism from human rights groups. No sitting US president has met with a North Korean leader.

While Duterte will seek more Russian business investment in his country, a key objective of his visit will be signing a defense cooperation agreement expected to provide the Philippines with more weapons to use in the ongoing war against drug traffickers that has become a staple of the Duterte presidency. Before Duterte called himself a small fan to receive awards and rejected offer, University of the Philippines on awarding him the degree of doctor of law.

But in the call, Trump hinted at a possible dramatic escalation on the Korean Peninsula. Philippine-US trade was worth more than $18 billion previous year.

One group of about 20 gunmen took position in a hospital, where they raised a black Islamic State group-style flag at the gate, and 10 other militants went near a provincial jail where troops and policemen engaged them in fighting, he said.