ALL hopes for sound diplomatic policies should Rodrigo Duterte become President were dashed to pieces with his latest rants, this time against tried and tested friends Australia and the United States.

Duterte bared his utter inability to think clearly when criticized by threatening to  cut diplomatic ties with Australia and the US – all because their envoys had expressed dismay, coaxed in diplomatic words, at his tasteless and shameful comments on the rape of an Australian missionary.

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