Mirror image: Rodrigo Duterte and Vladimir Putin. Photo: AFP Mirror image: Rodrigo Duterte and Vladimir Putin. Photo: AFP
Mirror image: Rodrigo Duterte and Vladimir Putin. Photo: AFP
Richard Heydarian
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Asian Angle by Richard Heydarian

Duterte is the Putin of Asia. Maria Ressa is the proof

  • Silencing the media, weaponising the law, building a macho personality cult: sound familiar?
  • The Philippine leader has drawn heavily from the playbook of a man he once described as his ‘favourite hero’

Richard Heydarian
Richard Heydarian

Updated: 12:08pm, 4 Mar, 2019

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Mirror image: Rodrigo Duterte and Vladimir Putin. Photo: AFP Mirror image: Rodrigo Duterte and Vladimir Putin. Photo: AFP
Mirror image: Rodrigo Duterte and Vladimir Putin. Photo: AFP
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Richard Heydarian

Richard Heydarian

Richard Heydarian is a Manila-based academic and author of "Asia's New Battlefield: US, China and the Struggle for Western Pacific" and the forthcoming "Duterte's Rise"