When Rodrigo Duterte succeeded NoyNoy Aquino's position as a new Filipino president, he endeavoured to turn down Aquino's blind pro-American diplomatic stance by reaching certain friendly trade agreements with Xi Jinping. However, witnessing that Donald Trump's attack on China in the trade battle gets to be very severe such as US' imprisonment on Ho Chi Ping and Meng Wanzhou, Rodrigo Duterte pursued a rather "sitting on the fence" attitude by changing from pro-CCP to pro-Republican Party in order to look for more sheltering and blessings from the US. Rodrigo Duterte stands so firmed against HKSAR's protests in the Four Imprisoned Hongkongers issue, which is even more barbaric than Noynoy Aquino's attitude towards Filipinos' guilt in Manila Hijacking Incident as Aquino felt helpless in getting aids from Obama due to US' sufferings in the Financial Tsunami and he had to apologize in front of Hu Jintao. Rodrigo Duterte thinks that, now he doesn't need to kowtow to Hong Kong people once Donald Trump can maneuver the trade battle to restrain Xi Jinping by making the US re-emerge as a super world economic power because he thinks that his compatriots who serve as domestic helpers in Hong Kong have been suffering from too much oppression.
Leung Shu Fook and Lo Wing Fai have innocently become two of the four sacrificed kidnap-pees during the process of Rodrigo Duterte's revenge against China and Hong Kong. However, Leung and Lo, who are legitimately Cheung Chau fishermen, never violate the Confucian norm of harmonious coexistence with the marine nature because they are practicing a very primitive mode of economic activity. Both Donald Trump and Rodrigo Duterte should not ruin the Chinese culture, as the Western values are too imperialistic in forcing the Orientals to abandon the ethical-cum-ecological persistences and become utilitarian-minded without empathy to humanistic concerns.
Rodrigo Duterte has also disrupted Leung Shu Fook from having a tight reunion with his son, his daughter and his old parents. Western values under the US and Filipino influences never treasure a devotion to Grandparents and relatives from the father's clan. However, we Chinese people, especially for Cheung Chau fishermen, strictly observe this Confucian norm! How come Rodrigo Duterte does something that really hurts the beloved Grandpa and Grandma of Leung's children? It reflects that the individualism of Western liberal values greatly harms the patriarchal family ethics of our Chinese society.
So, if Mrs. Maria Gloria Arroyo was re-appointed as the Filipino President, would she subjectively offer the four innocent Hong Kong citizens a helping hand due to her strong pro-China stance despite of the protests from the Filipino citizens internally?