President Barack Obama has canceled a scheduled meeting with new Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte after the obscenity-prone leader threatened Monday to make a scene at a regional summit in Laos if Obama challenged him on his country’s policy of summary executions.
“Son of a bitch, I will swear at you,” Duterte warned, according to The Associated Press.
The heated response was prompted by a reporter who asked Duterte how he would explain the extrajudicial killings that have soared in the island country of nearly 100 million people in the two months since he took office.
“I am a president of a sovereign state and we have long ceased to be a colony. I don’t have any master except the Filipino people, nobody but nobody. You must be respectful. Do not just throw away questions. Putang ina, I will swear at you in that forum,” he said, using a Tagalog phrase to insult Obama.
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