"Maniwala kayo kasi 'yan ang commitment sa akin ni China. Si Xi Jinping mismo nagsabi and he's a man of honor." (Believe it because that is China's commitment to me. Xi Jinping himself said it and he's a man of honor.)...
"Military bases, I must admit it, but is it intended for us? You must be joking. It's not intended for us," he said. China is building up its defense capability against just the United States, according to Duterte on 2-19-18. "It's really intended for those who China thinks will destroy them and that is America, hindi tayo kasali diyan (we aren't part of that)," said the President. https://www.rappler.com/nation/196426-duterte-philippines-province-china
....... compare this to the following:
1-9-18
And Kim Jong-un’s hermetic dictatorship apparently wants to assure the rest of the world that it doesn’t have any serious beef with its southern neighbor — just with America.
On Tuesday morning, a North Korean official said that the country’s weapons were pointed only at the United States, not at South Korea, Russia, or China. The official also said that North Korea’s rapidly expanding nuclear program is not an issue between North and South Korea. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/01/north-korea-our-nukes-are-aimed-only-at-united-states.html
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The AIIB was announced in October 2013, when 57 countries were accepted by China as founding members; 20 others have since joined. About 30 countries were waiting to join in January, AIIB President Jin Liqun said then. Member countries want to boost links with China and to do deals in its once-protected currency, the yuan. This includes Canada, U.K., Germany, France and Italy....
The ADB (Asian Development Bank, hq Manila) estimates the region will require $8 trillion in new infrastructure by 2020. 
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