Did Duterte Try to Flee to China to Avoid Arrest?

Skeptics question why he abandoned his impregnable Davao redoubt to fly to Hong Kong

On the way to the Hague

There is widespread speculation in Manila that former President Rodrigo Duterte’s sudden, unannounced trip to Hong Kong for a political rally with Filipino domestic workers was a desperate, vain attempt to get mainland Chinese authorities to grant him political asylum and protect him from an International Criminal Court-issued war…