Richard Heydarian is a senior lecturer at the Asia Center of the University of the Philippines and author of The Indo-Pacific: Trump, China, and the New Struggle for Global Mastery.
“Losing the vice presidency is not a big deal for me,” Sara Duterte said after a contentious exchange during her office's budget hearing in the Philippine legislature. “They are talking [impeaching me]. Even if they deny it, the members of the Assembly [of Representatives] they talk about it.”