IN his latest foray abroad, President Rodrigo Duterte took the first steps toward developing what he has declared will be an “independent” foreign policy for the Philippines, by issuing a joint statement with our near neighbor Vietnam that the two countries would increase cooperation in a number of trade and security areas.

This is an encouraging development on several counts.

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