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Thursday, April 23, 2020

A LOVING PRESIDENT?

It is no secret that President Duterte had expressed his feeling for China's President Xi Jinping.  Whether or not  such expression of love was  a figure of speech, the languages by which it had been demonstrated  seemed  palpable.

How does Pres. Duterte show his love? Apparently via words of affirmation:  he thanked Pres. Xi Jinping at least  in two instances  during his  recent weekly reports on the government's COVID-19  response.  

Pres. Duterte  also offered virtually no resistance to the advances of  Pres. Xi Jinping's  naval force  to the islands and reefs at the  West Philippine Sea, where the Philippines   secured  at the Permanent Court of Arbitration  in 2016  a  historic victory  against China.  Pres. Duterte's timid response could be tantamount to implied consent to giving away the our country's rights  over those territories. 

If we were to check  Dr. Gary Chapman's  list of the five languages of love,  it would  seem  that Pres. Duterte covers the first two points  as shown in the slide below. But then, we are mere observers.  Who are we to say if someone speaks just two   languages of love?


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