{"id":1613,"date":"2024-07-09T17:33:37","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T08:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/asiareview\/?p=1613"},"modified":"2024-07-09T17:33:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T08:33:37","slug":"the-philippine-pivot-to-china-and-russia-dutertes-foreign-policy-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiareview.snu.ac.kr\/?p=1613","title":{"rendered":"The Philippine Pivot to China and Russia: Duterte\u2019s Foreign Policy Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1666059682274{margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_acf field_group=”15″ field_from_15=”field_634e0b764f542″ show_label=”yes” align=”right”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image source=”featured_image” img_size=”full”][vc_btn title=”\uc6d0\ubb38 \ub2e4\uc6b4\ub85c\ub4dc” style=”flat” color=”chino” size=”sm” align=”center” i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-file-pdf” button_block=”true” add_icon=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fasiareview.snu.ac.kr%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2024%2F07%2F00340-%EC%95%84%EC%8B%9C%EC%95%84%EB%A6%AC%EB%B7%B0-12-3_%EC%9E%90%EC%9C%A0%EC%A3%BC%EC%A0%9C-Fernan-Talamayan.pdf|target:_blank”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]Reexamining Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s tirades against Western power blocs and the results of his diplomatic efforts to obtain Chinese and Russian assistance has never been more relevant, considering the measures his successor adopted to reinforce or reconfigure his foreign policy. To this end, the article revisits Duterte\u2019s pivot to China and Russia, refining the discussion of their rationale and providing a qualitative assessment of their outcomes. Through a critical review of presidential speeches and news reports, the article unpacks the connection of the strategy to the following: first, Duterte\u2019s anti-colonial narrative; second, his drug war; third, the desire to improve the country\u2019s military, trade, tourism, and infrastructure; and fourth, the management of the South China Sea conflict. While the foreign policy considered the country\u2019s geopolitical and economic realities, the article found that it failed to achieve its desired outcomes. With mounting pressure at home to demonstrate the gains of his Beijing-friendly policy and the political and economic repercussions of transacting with Moscow, Duterte appeared to have recalibrated the strategy before he left office. The policy\u2019s failures should offer lessons to international relations researchers, the administration that preceded Duterte, and, more importantly, to less powerful nations engaging with competing major powers.[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_acf field_group=”15″ field_from_15=”field_668b69583b98c” show_label=”yes” el_class=”tag”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1720514607135{margin-top: 20px !important;}”]00340-\uc544\uc2dc\uc544\ub9ac\ubdf0 12-3_\uc790\uc720\uc8fc\uc81c Fernan Talamayan<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reexamining Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s tirades against Western power blocs and the results of his diplomatic efforts to obtain Chinese and Russian assistance has never been more relevant, considering the measures his successor adopted to reinforce or reconfigure his foreign policy. To this end, the article revisits Duterte\u2019s pivot to China and Russia, refining the discussion of their rationale and providing a qualitative assessment of their outcomes. Through a critical review of presidential speeches and news reports, the article unpacks the connection of the strategy to the following: first, Duterte\u2019s anti-colonial narrative; second, his drug war; third, the desire to improve the country\u2019s military, trade, tourism, and infrastructure; and fourth, the management of the South China Sea conflict. While the foreign policy considered the country\u2019s geopolitical and economic realities, the article found that it failed to achieve its desired outcomes. With mounting pressure at home to demonstrate the gains of his Beijing-friendly policy and the political and economic repercussions of transacting with Moscow, Duterte appeared to have recalibrated the strategy before he left office. The policy\u2019s failures should offer lessons to international relations researchers, the administration that preceded Duterte, and, more importantly, to less powerful nations engaging with competing major powers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category--12-3-2022","category-2-"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiareview.snu.ac.kr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiareview.snu.ac.kr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiareview.snu.ac.kr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiareview.snu.ac.kr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiareview.snu.ac.kr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/asiareview.snu.ac.kr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1614,"href":"https:\/\/asiareview.snu.ac.kr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions\/1614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiareview.snu.ac.kr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiareview.snu.ac.kr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiareview.snu.ac.kr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiareview.snu.ac.kr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}