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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has garnered the attention of the mainstream media due to the hard line stance he takes on….well everything.
Last May Duterte won office touting an intense anti crime campaign that would specifically target the narcotic syndicates in the Philippines as well as the drug addicts. The major problem however is his support and use of indiscriminate killings in order to achieve the means to his cause. Although crime rates have decreased, instances of extrajudicial killings have inversely done the same.
Recently however Duterte has been embroiled in the South China Sea conflict. The South China Sea conflict is a dispute between several Asian Pacific nations states over the ownership of the Spratly Islands. This area holds importance as it is the transit point for all commercial trade between the America’s and Asia.
Savant Daily 