By Raïssa Robles –

I’ve just come from the July 4 Independence Day reception of the US Embassy in Manila.

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Normally, I don’t attend such affairs. But it was my first time to be invited. And I was curious to see who among the members of President Rodrigo Duterte’s government would show up, considering that Duterte himself had made noises critical of the US government.