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I am amused about the rise of the next newer global gunslinger called the president of the Philippines. He has therefore been labelled the ‘Trump of Asia’. But is force what we need in Asia?

With a history of being ‘a fighter for a good cause’, he has now risen to be the Philippine Official No 1. Rightly so, the people of the Philippines deserve more than they have got all these years. They are a good and hard working people; and the only Catholic country of Asia. They should lead in the fight against bribery, corruption and drugs. Enter Rodrigo Duterte with that specific agenda.

But somehow, in my analysis of the Philippines, they were not bequeathed good and efficient public services infrastructure, as were British Malaysia and Singapore. The Philippines was an American colony. I will therefore let Wikipedia clarify this phenomenon called the Asian trump card:

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