Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-8-2016
Abstract
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte speaks his mind. He does not back down.
Some believe he took his plain speaking too far this week before leaving the Philippines for a summit in Laos.
Reporters asked how Duterte intended to answer President Obama’s concerns over the more than 1,300 drug suspects killed over the past two months in Duterte’s anti-drug campaign. Using a well-known Tagalog obscenity, the Phillipine president called Obama a son of a bitch.
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Woods, Shelton. (2016). "The History Behind Philippine President Duterte’s Obama Insult". The Conversation, .
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