TAG: Asia
Before his election to the highest office in the land in mid-2016, President Rodrigo Duterte presented himself as an agent of change, the political outsider based in marginalised Mindanao who would shake up a political system historically dominated by powerful family dynasties.
As the rhetoric from the US White House swerves from combative to compromise and back again, uncertainty in the global trading environment is creating potential pitfalls for emerging markets the world over. In the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN), which counts China as its largest trading partner, member states watch with trepidation as President Donald Trump ramps up threats of levies on nearly all Chinese products shipped to the US.