Donald Trump , the Republican nominee, tweeted that the Chinese snubbed Obama and that Duterte called him a "'son of a whore.' "For a president eager to burnish his legacy, the trip has in fact yielded progress on several fronts, most notably climate change. Scrapping the meeting, US officials insisted, was less an expression of Obama's pique than a recognition that the news media would treat it as a spectacle. "Rhodes insisted that the alliance between the United States and the Philippines was "rock solid"; the two countries work together on a range of issues, from drug interdiction to counter-terrorism. White House officials attributed the dispute to inexperienced, overzealous security officials rather than any premeditated effort to humiliate Obama.

Source: Times of India September 07, 2016 17:04 UTC