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Last month, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi went to Davao, Duterte's hometown, to inaugurate a new Chinese consulate. "President Duterte is the most respected and important friend of President Xi Jinping and the Chinese people," Wang said.
But others warn that even though Duterte is suing China, the United States and Japan, they continue to invest a lot more in the Philippines.
"Where have all these important projects gone with China?", Asked Richard Javad Heydarian, professor of political science at De La Salle University in Manila, who calculated that out of 10 important contracts signed two years ago only $ 62 million loan for a dam has been treated so far.
"My concern is a chimera of China," Heydarian said. "China is making huge promises, but these investments force governments to make deep political concessions and the next few billion will have problems of transparency and accountability."
Mr. Duterte's actions in China are often at the expense of US rhetoric, which is linked to the Philippines by a mutual defense treaty. "Americans are noisy, sometimes noisy," he said in Beijing two years ago. "Their larynx is not adjusted to civility."
But few citizens are as pro-American as Filipinos. And influential members of the Philippine defense establishment fear that Mr. Duterte's conciliatory approach to the South China Sea will only encourage Beijing's claim, analysts said.
The Philippines' armed forces have quietly expanded the number of exercises they will carry out with the US military next year, even as Mr Duterte warns that the US is destabilizing the United States. 39, regional geopolitical order.
"A servile policy that ignores Chinese transgressions is holding back the Philippine army and surrendering to Beijing's wishes," said Jose Antonio Custodio, a Filipino military historian. "It's enough to say that elements of the military are demoralized at the turn of events."
