PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte’s desire for closer ties with China and Russia is aimed at balancing Philippine foreign policy that has long been aligned with the United States and Japan.

This was how professor Bobby Tuazon, director for policy studies of the Center for People Empowerment in Governance think tank, viewed the recent pronouncements of the President of a “neutral foreign policy.”

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