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Article Analysis Assessment 4

Article Analysis Assessment 4

Q First, read a news story from the newspaper or the Internet. Answer the following questions regarding your news story: 1) What is the main issue, who are the main actors being discussed; Second, read all the articles and watch all the videos assigned in this module. Answer the following questions regarding one of the assigned articles or videos: 1) What are the basics of this article/video (who, what, when, how, why, etc.); 2) What is the overall main point the author is trying to convince you of? 3) Do you agree with the author’s argument? Why? Why not? Finally, tie together your news story with what you learned from the assigned article and videos for this week. Type your answers using your own words, no outline or bullets, complete sentences and paragraphs, single-spaced, full-page.

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The article which is chosen for this week appeared in the New York Times and is by Jason Gutierrez, Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Eric Schmitt, named, “Philippines Tells U.S. it will End Military Cooperation Deal”. In the given article, the author explicates the way in which President Rodrigo Duterte has taken a firm stance in the form of “warming up to China and increasingly distancing Manila from the United States, its longtime ally” (Gutierrez, Gibbons-Neff & Schmitt, 2020). Philippines expressed willingness to scrap the Visiting Forces Agreement, a military pact which was used as a security blanket for Philippines.