Center for Culture & Global Studies🇦🇺🇧🇷🇩🇪🇮🇳🇯🇵🇺🇸: November 2016

Akari Watanabe

The Open Univerisity of Japan

Chiba, Japan

Contact mail: info@globalculturz.org

Rejecting all the estimates and media predictions, finally, Donald J Trump got a clear majority in the US general elections. Hillary Clinton surprisingly lost. Political pundits, world leaders, and media analyst were not able to de-codify this unprecedented victory. Trump was very focused on his campaign. He also created controversies. Controversies are beneficial to gain fame and popularity. Trump is the first president who had no political or military experience. Controversies made him popular, very quickly, among common white Americans. He also coined a catchy slogan of ‘Make America Great Again’ and repeated it several times during his televised debates and public addresses. He utilized the frustration of American Whites and was able to assure them a better condition. The majority trusted his commitments and they voted in favor of him.

Sandra Alva

Department of Area & International Studies Central University FECP
Sao Paulo, Brazil

A longtime trusted ally of the US, Philippines has declared its separation officially. President of Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte has made several sarcastic remarks on the US president Barck Obama on several counts. He also used an international forum to criticize Mr. Obama and the US intervention in its internal affairs. Duterte has launched an anti-drug campaign in the nation and there were many causalities in the process.

US administration conveyed its concern over the killings, which initiated the rift between decades long friendship and it has reached at the irreparable level. Advancing with this opportunity, in the mean while, China started to build closer ties with Philippines and its president made bold remarks about Mr. Obama, the US president. In one of his speeches he called Obama ‘son of whore’ and at another international platform he addressed Obama to ‘go to hell’. There were expected