The two-day Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit is expected to focus on Rodrigo Duterte's unpredictable foreign policy and attendees are predicted to support to his drug war.
Rodrigo Duterte's admission that he personally threw a rape and murder suspect out of a helicopter follows his controversial claim that when he was mayor of Davao he used to cruise the streets on a motorcycle looking for criminals to kill.
The Philippines continues its anti-US rhetoric, with the foreign affairs secretary saying the US had never allowed the "little brown brothers" of the Philippines to become truly free.
Duterte's calling Obama a "son of a bitch" led to the US president cancelling a meeting between the two leaders at the Group of 20 summit in Hangzhou, China.
It's not the first time Duterte has cursed at a world leader. In May he insulted Pope Francis calling him a "son of a whore" and later said the same of US Ambassador Philip Goldberg.
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