Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has announced his 'separation' from the United States, declaring he has realigned with China as the two agreed to resolve their South China Sea dispute through talks.
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'Both in military, not maybe social, but economics also. America has lost.'
"America has lost now. I've realigned myself in your ideological flow," he told business leaders in Beijing on Thursday. "And maybe I will also go to Russia to talk to Putin and tell him that there are three of us against the world: China, Philippines and Russia. It's the only way."