"America has lost now. I have realigned myself in your ideological flow"

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As if offering to abandon a 65-year alliance with the US in favour of China were not enough, Duterte, nicknamed Asia's Donald Trump, tried to ingratiate himself by emphasising that he had a Chinese grandfather. Reeling him in like a fish, China's President Xi Jinping embraced him and said they were "blood brothers".

Rodrigo Duterte has turned the tables in the Asia-Pacific. Now China is winning