WASHINGTON, D.C.: Brushing aside “recent differences,” US Secretary of State John Kerry reiterated that the alliance between Manila and Washington remained “ironclad” as he swore in Korean-American diplomat Sung Kim as the new US ambassador to the Philippines.
Without directly addressing the anti-American rhetoric of President Rodrigo Duterte, Kerry on Thursday said: “I am confident about the future of our bilateral relations, notwithstanding a difference here or there about one thing or another.”
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