Yet another triumph for the Obama foreign policy. More proof he has fulfilled his promise to "restore our moral standing in the world. We will once again lead the world not just militarily, but diplomatically, economically.”

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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte spelled out his foreign policy pivot to China in the clearest terms yet, telling hundreds of Filipinos in Beijing that “it’s time to say goodbye” to the U.S.

Foreign policy veers now towards” China, Duterte said on Wednesday night ahead of a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday. “No more American interference. No more American exercises,” he told a cheering crowd.

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“I will not go to America anymore” for assistance, Duterte said. “We will just be insulted there.”

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Let that be a lesson to Bush and his "cowboy" diplomacy.

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TOKYO — President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, on a trip to Japan, said Wednesday that he wanted all foreign troops out of his country within “maybe two years” and that he was willing to revoke base-hosting agreements with the United States.

The remarks, made to a group of Japanese and Filipino businessmen in Tokyo, are the clearest signal yet that Mr. Duterte wants to renegotiate the 2014 agreement his predecessor reached with the United States to let the Pentagon use five Philippine military bases, a central component of the Obama administration’s plan to bolster American influence in Asia.

“I want them out,” Mr. Duterte said of the American troops in his country, adding that he was willing to “revise or abrogate agreements.” He also repeated a recent assertion that he would withdraw from any joint military exercises with the United States, a treaty ally. “This will be the last maneuver, war games, between the United States and the Philippine military,” he said, according to a transcript of his remarks

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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/27/world/...japan.html?_r=1