PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte has boldly and audaciously claimed that foreign policy is solely his monopoly. And every political science student worthy of his or her mettle must have shuddered at the thought of how ill-informed that statement was, more so that it came from a president who is also a lawyer.

He forgot — because that is the only other kinder premise since the alternative would be sheer ignorance — that treaties, which are the main instruments of foreign policy, require Senate concurrence, and that only Congress can declare war on another country.

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