The British government sold nearly US$200,000 of hi-tech spying equipment to the Philippines, giving President Rodrigo Duterte the tools to hunt down and kill dealers and addicts as part of his brutal war on drugs. The man who is directly responsible for the drug war, Ronald de la Rosa, director-general of the Philippine National Police (PNP), was supposed to step down upon reaching the retirement age of 56 in January but President Rodrigo Duterte had asked him to stay on for three more months until April. A report produced by the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence places Duterte alongside Cambodia’s Hun Sen, the Rohingya crisis and Thailand’s military-backed constitution as among threats to democracy in Southeast Asia.