The importsnt thing is, we have lost an alliance. China has gained in power and influence. All overseen by the democrats.
Here's the precious part, the US gets kicked out, marginalized and isolated and Democrats actually think they are bitchslapping republicans! Historians will study this for decades. Psychologists will study it for centuries.
Well, that alliance has been sketchy for a minute. The ongoing sentiment has been trying to not make a move to side with either but knowing that at some point they were going to have to choose with the knowledge that it would suck either way. There were going to be repercussions no matter what they did. They really are caught in the middle.
China was gaining in power and influence by helping build infrastructure in countries nobody wanted anything to do with and drilling in places that were politically unstable and dealing with water issues.
Duterte plans to reopen Mamasapano investigation
He explained that this "separation" merely means to “chart another way” in terms of foreign policy from the Western power.
"Separation of my foreign policy, that it need not dovetail the foreign policy of America. That's what I meant actually…Separate is just to chart another way of doing it," he said.
"What I was really saying was, separation of a foreign policy. In the past, and until I became president, we always follow what the US would give the cue. What he would give, the cue, that we are there, we are there, we follow.
Pasunod-sunod tayo. 'Di ako magsunod (We always follow. I won't follow)," said Duterte.
But asked if American companies like business process outsourcing companies should worry about
the economic aspect of the "separation," Duterte said, "I worry that they would not get out of this country, that you have to force them. That is my worry."
On whether or not his "separation" would affect defense agreements with the US like the
Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA), Duterte said, "Maybe."
Duterte says he will not sever U.S. ties
The big thing in many of these countries is to operate as sovereign nations. The US does not like that.