PH needs to define its foreign policy

THE tiff over the grossly misunderstood expletive aside, it was as well that President Rodrigo Duterte and his US counterpart did not sit down for a talk.

Duterte in the early days of his presidency is yet to define a foreign policy, which whether he does or not, will anyway be his legacy on the world stage. Barack Obama is on the last leg of his eight-year overall reign. For him, this is the period that is euphemistically called the lame duck presidency. If Donald Trump wins the election, any deal Obama makes with any world leader now may be torn up. Even his own party candidate, Hilary Clinton, does not accept all of Obama’s policy strategies. The Trans-Pacific Partnership that Obama hailed as his “pivot” to Asia is an example.