TO United States President Donald Trump, President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines must be not just another “pretty smart cookie” and that is why he invited him to visit him at the White House this November.

Behind the surprisingly gracious invitation, however, is Trump’s apparent belief that Duterte can help him fulfill the unfinished business—pivoting to Asia—of his immediate predecessor Barack Obama, in addition to keeping at bay North Korea, which has been provoking the West these past few weeks with unbelievable threats of nuclear annihilation.

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