Majority of Filipinos still favor the United States over China, but the gap is narrowing amid President Rodrigo Duterte’s push to improve Manila’s ties with Beijing, according to an American think-tank.

Seventy-eight percent of Filipinos surveyed by the Pew Research Center had a favorable view of the US, compared with 55 percent for China

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