A diplomatic row seems to be brewing between the US and the Philippines As President Barack Obama has cancelled a meeting with controversial Philippine President, Rodrigo Duterte, who earlier called him a “son of a whore”.
Mr Duterte was responding to the US President’s promise to raise the issue of drug-related extra-judicial killings in the Philippines at their meeting.
US aides later confirmed Mr Obama would meet South Korea’s president instead.
In reply, Mr Duterte issued a statement saying he regrets that the comment came across as a personal attack on the US President.
This is not the first time the Filippino President Duterte has employed inflammatory language against such prominent figures as he has attacked Pope Francis, the US Secretary of State, John Kerry and the US Ambassador to the Philippines in recent times.
