Philippines police boss says US guns deal on after Duterte U-turn
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MANILA - The Philippines police will push ahead with the purchase of 26,000 assault rifles from a US supplier, the police chief said on Monday, following an about-face by President Rodrigo Duterte, who previously said the deal would be scrapped.
Duterte had a week ago expressed anger at "fools" and "monkeys" in Washington seeking to block the deal and said he would cancel it himself. But Duterte's police chief said he revoked that decision, apparently after Republican Donald Trump's surprise win in the US presidential election.
"(The president) told me to continue the deal," Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Dela Rosa, told a news conference.
