President Rodrigo Duterte’s “independent” foreign policy has been off to a slam-bang start, apparently rubbing it in on its major ally, the world’s only remaining superpower, the United States.

On Wednesday, he announced that the Philippines is considering buying military equipment from China and Russia, ostensibly to improve the country’s capability to address insurgency and terrorism.

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