Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s top aide has summoned the U.S. ambassador to discuss a global threat assessment by American intelligence agencies that mentioned Duterte along with dangers facing democracy in Cambodia, Myanmar and Thailand. The World Threat Assessment Report, published by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, names Duterte as one of the stumbling blocs for democracy and human rights in Southeast Asia, alongside Cambodia’s leader Hun Sen, Myanmar’s Rohingya crisis and Thailand’s junta. The drug war allowed Duterte to quickly erect an illiberal democracy in which he took advantage of the systemic crisis of a once dominant liberal reformist order, writes Mark R. Thompson for East Asia Forum.