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Duterte Meets Putin, Lashes Out At Western "Hypocrisy"...

• zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden

As China's president Xi was setting the stage for a new regional free-trade deal dubbed the Free Trade Area of Asia-Pacific at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Lima, Peru now that Obama's TPP has suffered a quiet death, a new geopolitical axis was being formed.

In the first meeting between the Philippines' outspoken president with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Peru, Duterte held nothing back in his views about major powers like the United States, suggesting he is sticking to his guns on re-aligning foreign policy away from Washington, despite his warm words for incoming U.S. president, Donald Trump.

Reiterating a recurring talking point from his national addresses, Duterte lashed out at Western "bullying" and "hypocrisy" in his first meeting with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and said when it came to alliances, the United States could not be trusted. "Historically, I have been identified with the Western world.


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